Rahul Gandhi Cuts Brief His US Go to, To Attend Congress’ CWC Assembly In Wake Of Pahalgam Terror Assault – News18

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The Congress social gathering has referred to as an emergency assembly of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), its highest decision-making physique on Thursday, in mild of the dastardly terror assault.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. (File picture: PTI)
Pahalgam Terror Assault: Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi has reduce brief his go to to the US (US) and would arrive in New Delhi on Thursday to attend the Congress Working Committee (CWC) in wake of the latest terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam which claimed at the very least 26 lives.
“Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Shri Rahul Gandhi has reduce brief his US go to and can be attending in particular person the CWC assembly in New Delhi tomorrow at 10:30 AM,” senior social gathering chief Jairam Ramesh stated in a submit on X.
Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Shri Rahul Gandhi has reduce brief his US go to and can be attending in particular person the CWC assembly in New Delhi tomorrow at 10:30 AM— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) April 23, 2025
Gandhi arrived within the US on Saturday.
The Congress social gathering has referred to as an emergency assembly of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), its highest decision-making physique on Thursday, in mild of the dastardly terror assault.
“An emergency assembly of the Congress Working Committee can be held tomorrow, Thursday, twenty fourth April 2025 at 11:00 AM at 24, Akbar Highway, within the wake of the horrific terrorist assault in Pahalgam,” Venugopal stated in a submit on X.
Venugopal additionally reached Srinagar earlier this morning, to pay homage to the misplaced lives within the horrific terror assaults. Whereas paying tributes to the departed souls, he stated, “We should stand united, not solely in mourning but in addition in our unflinching resolve towards violence, towards terror.”
Earlier, Rahul Gandhi had spoken with Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Congress’ J&Okay unit president Tariq Karra concerning the horrific Pahalgam terror assault to get an replace on the scenario.
He had asserted the households of victims deserve justice and our fullest assist.
In one of many greatest assaults in Jammu and Kashmir, Lashkar-linked terrorists opened fireplace on a gaggle of vacationers in Pahalgam on Tuesday, killing at the very least 26 individuals, together with international vacationers, and injuring many others. The Resistance Entrance (TRF), a Lashkar offshoot, took duty for the assault.
Terrorists focused a gaggle of individuals, together with ladies and aged people, within the brazen assault after midday. Eyewitnesses instructed safety forces that two to 3 males rushed in wearing navy fatigues, firing indiscriminately at vacationers whereas they had been having fun with the Baisaran Meadows of Pahalgam on horseback.