Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Alleges Prime Minister Narendra Modi Had Intel Report Of Pahalgam Attack Three Days Before, Hence Cancelled Visit

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had cancelled his Kashmir visit after “receiving an intelligence report three days before” the Pahalgam terror attack last month.

Noting that during an all-party meeting, the Centre accepted “intelligence failure” in the Pahalgam carnage, Kharge said the union government should be held accountable for “not reinforcing” security arrangements in Kashmir to protect people, even after such inputs.

Responding to Kharge’s allegation, the BJP claimed that the Congress president’s criticism of PM Modi over alleged intelligence failure in the Pahalgam terror attack was intended to “lower the morale of security forces” and amounted to “treason”.

As reported by PTI, Addressing a ‘Samvidhan Bachao’ rally in Ranchi, Kharge claimed he “got information that three days before the attack, an intelligence report was sent to Modi ji, and that is why Modi ji cancelled his visit to Kashmir”.

When an intelligence report said that it would not be proper for the PM to visit there for security reasons, Modi should have informed the intelligence, local police, and security forces to protect people, he said.

The Congress president claimed: “When you (PM) got the information, you cancelled your programme but did not send more forces to protect tourists there.”

Twenty-six people, mostly tourists, were killed in the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.

Kharge claimed, “India is faced with a huge crisis. The Centre accepted the intelligence failure during the all-party meeting. You (PM Modi) admitted that there was an intelligence flaw. When the Centre knew about the possible terror strike, why did it not put in place a system to protect people?”