BJP policies to blame, says Rahul Gandhi on J&K attacks

New Delhi, July 16

Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the soldiers and their families “are bearing the brunt of BJP’s wrong policies”.

“Today, our soldiers were martyred in another terrorist encounter in J&K. Such horrific incidents one after the other are extremely worrying,” Rahul said in a post on X in Hindi. “Our soldiers and their families are bearing the brunt of BJP’s wrong policies. Every patriotic Indian demands that the government should take full responsibility for the repeated security lapses and take strict action against the culprits. In this hour of grief, the entire country stands united against terrorism,” Rahul said.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge claimed the Modi government had been acting as if “everything is business as usual in Jammu and Kashmir”.

“Deeply distressed by the martyrdom of four brave soldiers, including an officer, in an encounter in Doda… No words of strong and unequivocal condemnation will

suffice for these acts of violence being perpetrated by cowardly terrorists,” Mallikarjun Kharge wrote on X.