Seeking Accountability : Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Demands All- Party Meeting Over Pahalgam Terror Strike

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The Congress has asked the government to take accountability for the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir instead of making “hollow claims” on the situation being normal in the Union Territory, and demanded that an all-party meeting be called to take political parties into confidence.

The opposition party denounced the terror attack as a blot on humanity and said it should not go “unanswered effectively”.

Terrorists struck a prime tourist location of Pahalgam in south Kashmir on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and injuring several others, according to officials.

Party chief Mallikarjun Kharge also condemned the “deadliest attack” in the valley since the 2019 Pulwama strike.

“I strongly condemn the cowardly terror attack on innocent tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The entire nation is united in fighting the scourge of cross-border terrorism,” Kharge said in a post on X.

Expressing sadness at the dastardly terror attack on innocent tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam region, Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday stressed the need for a deep resolve to defeat these violent forces and called for building “the broad social consensus against terror that existed in the past”.

Sonia Gandhi asserted that the entire country stands united against terror.

“I am deeply saddened and devastated to learn of the dastardly terror attack on innocent tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam region. Resorting to violence is an act of cowardice and needs to be condemned in no uncertain terms,” she said in a statement.