New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has criticised the Congress after Sonia Gandhi awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development to former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet , invoking her past criticisms of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the Jammu and Kashmir issue.

In 2019, commenting on the restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir in the aftermath of the abrogation of Article 370, Bachelet, then serving as the head of the UN Human Rights Council, had expressed deep concern about the “impact of recent actions by the Government of India on the human rights of Kashmiris”.

Bachelet had filed an application the next year, seeking to intervene as an amicus curiae in a litigation, then pending in the Supreme Court, against the CAA. The Centre had hit b

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