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Nothing remarkable in PM's speech: Cong.

New Delhi Aug. 15. Describing the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's Independence Day speech as nothing "remarkable", the Congress today said the reference to Indo-Pakistan relations "struck all the right notes".

"It was an absolutely pedestrian, prosaic kind of speech. It struck all the right notes on Indo-Pakistan relations and on those issues the Congress has no differences with the Government," the Congress spokesman, S. Jaipal Reddy, said.

On foreign policy issues, he said, the Congress had made it a point to go out of the way and express solidarity with the Government.

Stating that huge differences existed with the Government on domestic issues, Mr. Reddy said the Congress did not want to extend this to foreign policy.

PTI

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