
The previous Congress president asserted that victims’ households deserve justice and our fullest assist. “Spoke with HM Amit Shah, J&Okay CM Omar Abdullah, and J&Okay PCC President Tariq Karra concerning the horrific Pahalgam terror assault. Acquired an replace on the state of affairs,” the previous Congress chief, who’s on a US go to, stated in a publish on X.
Spoke with HM Amit Shah, J&Okay CM Omar Abdullah, and J&Okay PCC President Tariq Karra concerning the horrific Pahalgam terror assault. Acquired an replace on the state of affairs.
The households of victims deserve justice and our fullest assist.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 23, 2025
The households of victims deserve justice and our fullest assist, he stated. The Congress on Tuesday had requested the federal government to take accountability for the fear assault in Jammu and Kashmir as an alternative of constructing “hole claims” concerning the state of affairs being regular within the Union Territory and demanded that an all-party assembly be referred to as to take the political events into confidence.
The opposition social gathering denounced the fear assault as a blot on humanity and stated it mustn’t go “unanswered successfully”. No less than 26 vacationers, together with foreigners, misplaced their lives after terrorists struck a major vacationer location of Pahalgam in South Kashmir on Tuesday. A number of others additionally sustained accidents, in accordance with officers.
The 26 lifeless included two foreigners – from the UAE and Nepal – and two locals, officers stated. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has described the fear assault as “a lot bigger than something we have seen directed at civilians lately”.
Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Gandhi had stated the information of vacationers being killed and injured within the cowardly terrorist assault in Pahalgam was extraordinarily condemnable and heartbreaking. “I categorical my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved households and hope for the speedy restoration of the injured,” he stated.
“The entire nation is united in opposition to terrorism. As an alternative of constructing hole claims on the state of affairs being regular in Jammu and Kashmir, the federal government ought to now take accountability and take concrete steps in order that such barbaric incidents don’t occur sooner or later and harmless Indians don’t lose their lives like this,” he stated.
Terrorists opened hearth on Tuesday at a famed meadow close to Pahalgam city in Jammu and Kashmir, killing 26 folks, principally vacationers, in what’s the deadliest assault within the Valley because the Pulwama strike in 2019. The assault was claimed by The Resistance Entrance (TRF), a proxy of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist group.