Pahalgam attack
Srinagar: Assam Agriculture Minister Atul Bohra on Sunday visited the family of Adil Hussain Shah, who was killed by terrorists in the April 22 attack in Pahalgam, to offer condolences on behalf of Assam government.
Bora also presented a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to Shah’s family as relief from the Assam government.
Talking to reporters later, Bora said he will meet Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and plead the case of the bereaved family which lost its sole bread winner.
“We wanted to meet the chief minister (Omar Abdullah) but he is out of station,” he said.
Bora said the entire world condemned the terror attack and there was widespread support to the Narendra Modi government on its reprisal.
“We are all one and we have to work together,” he added.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the people of the state stand firm with the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed the lives of 26 civilians.
“Though we can never fill the void that Late Bitan Adhikari has left in the lives of Smt. Sohini and the young child, we have extended a token of assistance from the people of Assam to help them in this tough time,” Sarma posted on X.
Meanwhile, India is sending multi-party delegations, led by various members of Parliament, to different countries across the globe to brief them about the country’s response to the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.
DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, leading an all-party delegation to Russia, on Saturday asserted that links to terrorist attacks in India are always “traced back to Pakistan,” as she reiterated India’s zero-tolerance policy against terrorism.
“India had no choice but to respond. But when India responded, we responded responsibly. We ensured no civilian was affected. We (during Operation Sindoor) only targeted the installations where terrorists were sheltered and trained. They resorted to military aggression and targeted gurdwaras, temples, residential areas where Indian civilians lived, and even our military bases,” she told reporters in Moscow.
