“Shameless Insensitivity”: Congress Slams PM Modi For Holding G20 “Celebrations” Amidst Anantnag Encounter In Which Army Personnel Killed

The Congress today called the programme in BJP headquarters yesterday as “shameless insensitivity of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, towards the martyred officers and soldiers in Anantnag encounter” and alleged that PM Modi went ahead with “his self-praising celebrations at the BJP headquarters while the news of the incident was being flashed at the same time”.

Two Indian Army officers and a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) were killed in a fierce gunfight with terrorists in Kokernag in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday.

Addressing a press conference here today, the Chairman of the Congress Ex-Servicemen Department, Col Rohit Chaudhary said, while the country was shocked with the grief as the news of the martyrdom of Col Manpreet Singh, Major Ashish Dhonchak and DSP Humayun Bhatt, flashed all over, the “Prime Minister was busy getting himself showered with flowers at the BJP headquarters”.

PM Modi was warmly greeted at the BJP headquarters in Delhi on Wednesday and honored by senior party leaders in recognition of his successful hosting of the G20 Summit. This was PM Modi”s first visit to the party headquarters following the conclusion of the G20 summit in Delhi on September 10.

“…why could not the PM stop the function and express solidarity with the country in general and the soldiers in particular,” Col Rohit Chaudhary asked while adding that “the army and the country were feeling hurt over such shameful behaviour of the Prime Minister who has otherwise always been claiming to be a nationalist”.

Col Chaudhary also said the Congress party stands by the martyrs’ families and shares their grief. He said he along with his colleagues will be visiting Panipat, to share the grief of the family of Major Dhonchak. He said, similarly the Congress representatives will be visiting the Chandigarh residence of Col Manpreet Singh.