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Jammu, May 23 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's invitation to participate in the Second Round Table Conference scheduled for May 24 and 25 in summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.

State BJP president Nirmal Singh and Vice president and spokesman Prof Hari Omturns, while addressing a press conference, said they turned down the PM's invitation to compromise "with our ideology" for resolution of the Kashmir problem.

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