Prime Minister Narendra Modi must break his silence on the allegations raised by former Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik regarding the Union government’s negligence that reportedly led to the death of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in the Pulwama terror attack in 2019, Congress’s national spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said on Saturday.
Addressing the media here, she said Mr. Modi, the Union government and the BJP were answerable to the families of the martyrs of the Pulwama attack, who were thinking whether their dear ones would be alive today had the government not been “apathetic and negligent”.
Pointing out that two weeks had passed since Mr. Malik made the allegations, she said the BJP and the Union government had conspicuously gone silent. Mr. Malik, she said, was no ordinary person and held the highest Constitutional position in Jammu & Kashmir when the Pulwama attack happened. Moreover, he enjoyed complete confidence of Mr. Modi, and had served as the Governor of Goa, Bihar and Meghalaya too.
