Former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik`s remarks approximately the 2019 Pulwama assault have brought about a political storm. During a latest interview, Mr Malik claimed that safety lapses caused the Pulwama assault wherein forty CRPF employees have been killed. He additionally claimed that a request with the aid of using the paramilitary pressure requesting an plane to shuttle changed into denied with the aid of using the authorities, which in flip caused the jawans journeying with the aid of using road.
In the interview with The Wire, Mr Malik additionally alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “ill-informed” approximately the Jammu and Kashmir region.
Citing his beyond feedback wherein he had praised the authorities, the ruling BJP stated that his “U-turns” raised questions on his credibility. BJP’s I-T branch head Amit Malviya shared numerous vintage clips of Mr Malik praising the authorities and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“And earlier than Congress minions get all enthusiastic about Satyapal Malik, their newfound knight withinside the shinning armour, right here is what he had to mention approximately Rahul Gandhi. So, take a seat down down,” Mr Malviya tweeted, sharing a video of Satyapal Malik wherein he had mocked Rahul Gandhi as a “political juvenile”.
Besides calling Rahul Gandhi a “political juvenile”, he’s heard pronouncing withinside the video that human beings will “beat him with shoes” at some stage in elections if they may be instructed he (Gandhi) helps Article 370, which changed into nullified with the aid of using the Modi authorities.
Mr Malviya, in some other tweet, stated, “No one took him (Satyapal Malik) critically even if he made those allegations lower back then. But it increases extreme questions about his credibility.”
On the opposite hand, the Opposition is stressful statistics from the probe into the Pulwama incident.
The Congress party, repeating the allegations with the aid of using Mr Malik, accused PM Modi of “suppressing” the incident to “save” his non-public picture beforehand of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Congress preferred secretary Jairam Ramesh accused the BJP-led Union authorities of “minimal governance and most silence” and requested it to touch upon the claims Mr Malik made at the incident.
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Sanjay Raut stated that the Opposition leaders who had raised questions about the Pulwama assault have been “silenced with the aid of using the ruling BJP and referred to as traitors.”
Samajwadi Party additionally demanded solutions at the “incompetence” of the BJP authorities in stopping the Pulwama assault.
Over forty infantrymen have been killed after a suicide bomber rammed his automobile into the CRPF convoy On February 14, 2019. In a retaliatory assault, the Indian Air Force focused terror camps in Balakot in Pakistan.