‘Vacationers Ought to Have Fought, Ladies Lacked Spirit’: BJP MP’s Pahalgam Assault Comment Stirs Row
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Ram Chander Jangra sparked controversy by saying the Pahalgam terror assault victims ought to have fought again and accused the widows of missing braveness.
A file picture of Rajya Sabha MP Ram Chander Jangra (Social Media)
Rajya Sabha MP Ram Chander Jangra on Saturday courted an issue by saying that the vacationers who misplaced their lives within the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault ought to have fought the terrorists.
He additionally mentioned that girls who misplaced their husbands to the assault “lacked” the spirit, and will have acted like ‘veerangna‘ (warrior ladies).
Jangra mentioned the variety of casualties within the Pahalgam terror assault would have been much less had the vacationers undergone the Agniveer coaching.
Jangra’s comment got here whereas he was addressing a gathering in Haryana’s Bhiwani, an occasion organised to mark the three hundredth start anniversary of Ahilyabai Holkar.
“Wahan par jo hamari veerangnay behane thee, jinki maang ka sindoor chheen liya gaya, Veerangna ka bhaav nahin tha, josh nahin tha, jazba nahin tha, dil nahin tha, isliye haath jod ke goli ka shikaar ho gaye. (Ladies, who misplaced their husbands, didn’t have the spirit and vigour. Subsequently, they turned victims of the assault),” Jangra mentioned.
“Lekin haath jodne se koi chhodta nahin. Hamare aadmi vahan par haath jodkar maare gaye. (Terrorists don’t go away one with requests. Our folks died with folded fingers),” he added.
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The BJP MP mentioned had the ladies, who misplaced their husbands within the assault, had they learn Holkar’s historical past, then no person would have killed their husbands on this approach in entrance of them.
“Agar yaatri coaching move kiye hote, to teen ugarvaadi 26 logon ko nahin mar sakte the. (Had our vacationers handed the coaching, then three terrorists couldn’t have killed 26 folks),” he mentioned.
Jangra mentioned that the vacationers ought to have put up a combat in opposition to the terrorists.
“Bilkul ladna chahihye tha. Aur agar ladte, to kam shahadat hoti aur kam log maare jaate. Haath jodne se kaun chhodta hai? Wo to maarne ke liye aaye the… Vo to aatankvaadi the. Unke dil mein daya thodi thee. (Had they (vacationers) fought, the casualties would have been fewer.”
“They — terrorists — had come to kill folks. They didn’t have mercy,” Jangra mentioned whereas responding to a query later.
A video of Jangra’s comment was broadly shared on social media.
JANGRA’s REMARK TRIGGERS ROW
Reacting sharply to the Rajya Sabha MP’s comment, Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav mentioned even the phrase “condemnable” would object to scripting this disgusting assertion.
He additionally slammed the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) and mentioned this was the actual face of the occasion.
“Even the phrase ‘condemnable’ would object to scripting this disgusting assertion of the BJP MP in regards to the victimised ladies of Pahalgam,” Yadav wrote in an X put up in Hindi.
“As an alternative of worshipping ladies, insulting them, condemning them and exploiting and harassing them in each potential approach is the actual face of the BJP, which is each disgusting and intensely shameful. BJP is just not a celebration however a swamp of anti-women mentality,” he added.
Congress MP from Rohtak, Deepender Singh Hooda, additionally took to X and wrote, “These whose husbands have been ruined by terrorists within the Pahalgam assault, now this BJP MP from Haryana, Ramchandra ji is working to damage their dignity.”
“It is a very disgusting remark. The BJP is consistently insulting the households of martyrs. This must be stopped,” he wrote.
Congress’s social media head, Supriya Shrinate, additionally condemned Jangra’s remarks.
“BJP MP Ramchandra Jangra is speaking in regards to the ladies who misplaced their husbands within the Pahalgam assault. ‘She didn’t have the spirit of a warrior. She didn’t have ardour, she didn’t have zeal, she didn’t have coronary heart. That’s why they folded their fingers and have become a sufferer of the bullet’,” Shrinate quoted Jangra in her put up.
“And occasion talks about vermilion? There’s a restrict to shamelessness,” she added.
PAHALGAM ATTACK AND OPERATION SINDOOR
As many as 26 vacationers have been killed by armed terrorists in Kashmir’s iconic Pahalgam on April 22.
Survivors later mentioned the terrorists had requested them their religion, and shot useless those that mentioned they have been non-Muslims.
The terrorists additionally requested the vacationers to recite a ‘Kalma‘ (an Islamic phrase) to substantiate in the event that they have been non-Muslims, earlier than taking pictures them point-blank.
In response, India, on the intervening evening of Might 7 and eight, launched ‘Operation Sindoor’ in opposition to Pakistan and destroyed a number of terror targets there. Greater than 100 terrorists, taking shelter in Pakistan, have been additionally killed within the operation.
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