Narendra Modi planned Pulwama attack, claims India’s Congress leader

NEW DELHI: Indian Congress Leader Udit Raj has asserted that “power-hungry” Prime Minister Narendra Modi had planned the Pulwama terror attack that took place in February 2019, just weeks before the Indian parliamentary elections.

In a tweet, the former IRS officer termed the security breach during recent Modi’s visit to Indian Punjab a “drama”, saying it proved that Modi was behind the ghastly terror attack in which 40 personnel lost their lives.

 

पी एम मोदी की नौटंकी ने अब पुख्ता कर दिया कि सत्ता की भूख के लिए पुलवामा कांड खुद कराया।

— Dr. Udit Raj (@Dr_Uditraj) January 8, 2022

“Why the soldiers were allowed to travel in a convoy and were not airlifted,” Times Now quoted Raj as saying. This statement from the Congress leader comes after Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu also called the PM’s security breach a “drama”.

On PM’s security breach, Raj alleged that Modi wants to defame Charanjit Singh Channi as he cannot see a Dalit as the Chief Minister and said that when PM goes to Varanasi he stops his convoy to meet people but does not feel threatened then.

Last year, Pakistan urged the international community to hold India accountable for vitiating the regional security environment after it emerged that New Delhi had staged the Pulwama attack to ensure election win for Narendra Modi.

A damning transcript of WhatsApp messages between Arnab Goswami, chief editor of Republic TV, and Pratho Dasgupta – the incarcerated head of ratings company Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) – had exposed New Delhi’s smear campaign against Islamabad.

The conversation is part of a 3,400-page supplementary charge-sheet filed by Mumbai Police investigating the alleged tampering case. India was quick to blame Pakistan for the attack and rejected repeated offers of cooperation by Prime Minister Imran Khan.