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Arpan Rai

Indian lawmaker slammed for saying widows of Kashmir terror attack lacked ‘heroism’

An Indian lawmaker has been criticised for blaming women survivors of the deadly Kashmir terror attack for not fighting back against the armed gunmen to save the lives of the men who were killed.

Ram Chander Jangra, a member of Rajya Sabha, or the upper house of Indian parliament, from prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was speaking at a public gathering in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Saturday when he accused the widows of lacking the spirit of a warrior.

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