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"The result was on expected line. They have the numbers. Unfortunately, the government was taking the country for confrontation rather than consensus," Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee said, referring to the passage of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill in the joint sitting of Parliament.
"Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is politically intolerant and self-righteous and is unable to withstand either the political pressure from the Sangh Parivar or pressure from opposition parties," Congress spokesman S Jaipal Reddy said.
Another senior party leader, Arjun Singh, said: "They have won the vote but lost the case."
"Samajwadi President Mulayam Singh said that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government was trying to destroy the democratic polity of the country by adopting the bill with a "brute majority" and said that his party would approach the people to expose the government and its anti-people policies.
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