Assailants Didnt Ask Religion: Ktaka Minister After J-Ok Terror Attack, BJP Hits Back

Karnataka Excise Minister and Congress Leader RB Thimmapur, commenting at the Pahalgam terror assault, mentioned that he didn’t assume the “assailants” would have requested the title and faith of the sufferers. 

To this, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) chief CR Kesavan on Sunday introduced a recent assault in opposition to him. 

Karnataka Minister’s Remarks After Pahalgam Attack 

According to information company ANI, whilst speaking to the media in Karnataka’s Bagalkot, the Congress chief mentioned, “I personally don’t think the assailants would have asked the name and religion of the tourists. It is not just to add religious colour to cover up an intelligence failure.” 

After Karnataka Minister’s remarks, BJP’s Kesavan known as it disrespectful to the sufferers and their households.

BJP Hits Back At Congress

ANI quoted Kesavan as announcing, “The wicked and barbaric remarks of Congress Karnataka Minister Thimmapur have insulted the integrity of the mourning families and humiliated the courageous sacrifices of our victims who were killed in the Pakistan-backed Islamic terror attack in Pahalgam.”

The BJP Leader accused Congress of enjoying politics and dividing other people alongside communal strains and mentioned, “Even in this hour of national grief, the communal Congress party, which has completely forsaken and mortgaged its conscience and soul to bigoted vote bank politics of religious appeasement, is fiddling with the politics of polarisation and division.”

Kesavan slamming Thimmapur said that it’s transparent from the households’ tales of the sufferers of the Pahalgam assault have been requested in the event that they have been Hindus. 

He mentioned, “Congress Minister Thimmapur shamefully said that these terrorists would not have asked the name and religion of the victims, and he went on to say in the most atrocious way that it is unfair to target religion. It is very clear from the heart-wrenching stories of the families of the victims who were present when their loved ones were asked whether they were Hindu, and when they proudly said yes, they were shot before their eyes and died.”

“And today, the statements Thimmapur, the Congress leader, has made pretty much imply that these families and the witnesses to these murders are lying. Is that what the Congress leadership is saying? Are they saying that these helpless victims’ families, who witnessed the murders, are lying? Shame on the Congress Party for playing politics at this juncture,” he endured. 

Calling out to Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, the BJP chief requested if they’re enjoying a recreation. 

Kesavan added, “It is high time Kharge, who hails from Karnataka, and Rahul Gandhi, who is going around saying that they will stand by the centre in whatever action we take, are they playing a double game? Are they trying to do the politics of hit-and-run and shoot-and-scoot, where one set of Congress leaders, including Siddaramaiah and this minister, are giving a clean chit to Pakistan, and the other side, Rahul Gandhi, is trying to play the good cop? The people of the country will not forgive the double game and the communal politics the Congress Party is playing.”

“The Congress leadership, if they differ from Timmapur, cannot just disown or distance themselves from these atrocious remarks. They immediately have to dismiss Timmapur as a minister in the Karnataka government and take action against him for insulting our victims and humiliating the integrity of the families of these victims,” Kesavan additional mentioned.

Siddaramiah’s Comments On Pahalgam Attack 

The remarks through Karnataka’s Excise Minister got here after the state’s Chief Minister Siddaramiah’s remarks at the Pahalgam assault. His ‘no longer important to salary conflict in opposition to Pakistan’ remark sparked a row on Saturday. 

Siddaramaiah, on Sunday, said that conflict must be waged simplest when it turns into unavoidable.

Pahalgam Attack And India’s Measures

On April 22, terrorists opened hearth at vacationers in Pahalgam, Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir. In the grotesque assault, 26 have been killed and a number of other others have been injured. According to stories, the phobia assault used to be claimed through The Resistance Front (TRF), the frontal outfit of terror workforce Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). 

Apart from the abeyance of the Indus Water Treaty, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) took different measures after the assault, together with mentioning the Defence and Military, Naval, and Air Advisors within the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi ‘Persona Non Grata’ and gave them per week to depart the rustic. 

In addition, India shall be chickening out its personal Defence, Navy, and Air Advisors from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri had knowledgeable. He added that the Integrated Check Post at Attari shall be closed.

(with ANI inputs)