West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on 10 June claimed that the Pahalgam terror attack was a result of the Centre’s callousness. The Trinamool Congress chief also accused the Bharatiya Janata Party, in power at the Centre, of trying to politicise valour of the armed forces.
“Why security personnel were absent at the terror attack site in Pahalgam,” Mamata Banerjee asked, speaking in the state assembly, news agency PTI reported.
“Where did the terrorists comes from? How did they get the arms and where have they disappeared? Why hasn’t anyone caught as yet?,” she asked.
Banerjee stressed that there was a need to teach terrorists a lesson. “We salute bravery of armed forces,” she said, adding that terrorism has no religion.
Why security personnel were absent at the terror attack site in Pahalgam?
The ruling TMC also passed a resolution lauding the armed forces in the state assembly.
As many as 26 people were killed and several others injured in the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on 22 April. Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor on 7 May, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.