Rahul Gandhi to visit J&K today after Pahalgam terror attack
Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will visit Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday, following the terrorist attack in Pahalgam.
Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will visit Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday, following the terrorist attack in Pahalgam.
However, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena's Lok Sabha MP informed Rijiju that he'll not be able to attend the all-party meeting to be presided over by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
He said that the terror attack in Pahalgam was the result of intelligence failure and lapse of the security measures adopted by security agencies despite the fact that the Union Territory has been under constant terror attacks.
The Uttarakhand Police have been alerted and asked to remain highly vigilant in view of the upcoming Chardham pilgrimage to begin on April 30.
The announcement was made in response to a special calling attention motion moved by TNCC president K Selvaperunthagai, who is also the CLP Leader.
According to the International Air Transport Association and other tours and travel agencies, almost all flight tickets and lodging bookings have been cancelled in the last 48 hours, for the first time.
The meeting was convened by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to jointly condemn the terrorist attack.
The treaty survived two wars -- the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars -- and several military standoffs between the two neighbours, including the 1999 Kargil war, but has now been indefinitely suspended.
A high alert has been sounded along the India-Pakistan border in Barmer, Jaisalmer and Bikaner districts after the terror strike in Pahalgam on Tuesday.
"My father was gunned down in front of me and my sons," Arathy R Menon, daughter of N Ramachandran, a native of Kochi who was killed in the terror attack at Baisaran Valley of Pahalgam in South Kashmir on Tuesday said while recounting her harrowing experience of the terror attack.
