Saharanpur: Lashing out at the Congress party over its mention of reviewing Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in its election manifesto, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Raghav Lakhanpal on Wednesday, April 3, said, “It appears the Congress manifesto was printed in Pakistan. Such a manifesto cannot be printed by Indians.”

The Congress in its manifesto has mentioned that it will scrap Sedition Law and also review AFSPA.

Western Uttar Pradesh is all set to vote in the first phase on April 11. Congress’ Imran Masood and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) colaition candidate Haji Fazlur Rehman will also contest from Saharanpur Lok Sabha constituency. Lakhanpal won the 2014 Lok Sabha polls defeating Masood by over 70,000 votes.

All the eight seats which were won by the BJP in the 2014 elections will go to polls in the first phase of elections.