REDDY QUESTIONS MODI OVER 2019 PULWAMA ATTACK, BJP SLAMS CONG
HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy has attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “failing” to prevent and trying to reap “political benefits” from the Pulwama terror attack in 2019, triggering a sharp response from the BJP that slammed the Congress for questioning the “bravery” of the military.
Forty CRPF personnel were killed in Pulwama district of J&K on February 14, 2019 after a suicide bomber rammed his explosiveladen car into a convoy of the force. Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) had claimed responsibility.
Addressing an event in Hyderabad on Friday night, Reddy said: “Modi ji tried to take political benefit from surgical strikes after the Pulwama incident. My question to Modi ji is, what are you doing? Why did the Pulwama incident happen? Why did you let it happen? What are you doing about internal security? Why did you not use agencies like IB, RAW? It is your failure. Nobody knows if a surgical strike actually took place or not.” He was referring to an airstrike by Indian fighter jets at a JeM camp in Pakistan’s Balakot on February 26, 2019, which brought the two countries to the verge of war, after the Pulwama attack.
His remarks came days after former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi also questioned the Centre over the attack.
Hitting out at the Congress, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Saturday said: “In their attempt to oppose Modi, the Congress is questioning the bravery of the military and putting India under question on the issue of terrorism by giving a clean chit to Pakistan. They are giving them a way to protect themselves at international forums. This is the real intention of the Congress; they are getting support from Pakistan.”