‘Found Foreigners In Bihar But Couldn't Identify Terrorists In Pahalgam': Owaisi Hits Out At BJP
AIMIM president Owaisi criticised government over Bihar's voter revision, questioned the failure to prevent the Pahalgam attack, and demanded accountability.
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi hit out Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters in Bihar, saying that he wondered how the Election Commission could identify the presence of Bangladeshis, Rohingyas and Nepalis in Bihar's voter list but the intelligence agencies failed to find out how the terrorists entered the Indian territory and carried out mass killings in Pahalgam.
While addressing a gathering at Telangana's Bodhan town on Wednesday, Owaisi said, 'You manage to find Bangladeshis, Rohingyas, and Nepalis in Bihar, but why don't you investigate how terrorists entered Pahalgam?"
बिहार में बांग्लादेशी, रोहिंग्या और नेपाली ढूंढ़ लेते हो, लेकिन पहलगाम में आतंकी कैसे आए इसका पता क्यों नहीं लगाते? pic.twitter.com/TVHOIG94QL — Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) July 17, 2025
The AIMIM leader alleged that the Pahalgam terror attack was an example of PM Modi government's security lapse.
He further urged that the 'revenge" should be taken for the ghastly terror attack and that Operation Sindoor should be continued. He further warned that he would continue to ask tough questions of the government until all four terrorists are located.
Owaisi, who was a member of the government's all-party global outreach delegation on Operation Sindoor, further took a dig at Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha over his reported comments that he takes responsibility for the 'security failure" of the attack.
He said that since Sinha has taken responsibility of security failure in the Pahalgam terror attack, he should resign from the post.
'If he (J-K LG) has taken the responsibility, then he should resign. Twenty-six Indians were brutally killed in Pahalgam after they were asked their religion and because they were Hindus. If the LG is in so much pain, he should resign. Twenty-six people were killed after being asked their religion and you (J-K LG) merely say this when your tenure is about to end," he added.
Owaisi further said that the opposition will ask the Modi government over their accountability over the terror attack.
'We will ask the Modi government who is responsible for the Pahalgam attack. Who is accountable for this attack? How did the terrorists go there and why was there no police security at the spot? We will ask these questions to the government in the upcoming Parliament session," Owaisi said.
Pahalgam Terror Attack
In one of the biggest attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, Lashkar-linked terrorists opened fire on a group of tourists in Pahalgam on April 22, killing at least 26 people, including foreign tourists, and injuring many others. The Resistance Front (TRF), a Lashkar offshoot, claimed responsibility for the attack, although it later backtracked after massive global outrage.
India responded with Operation Sindoor on May 7, bombing nine terrorist camps across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in pre-dawn strikes that killed at least 100 militants. The operation sparked four days of cross-border fighting involving fighter jets, missiles and artillery.
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