Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that the government accepted "intel failure" in an all-party meeting held on the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives.
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00:00Congress' big allegation against Prime Minister Modi on the Pehalgaam attack.
00:04Congress claims that Prime Minister Modi had intel three days before the Pehalgaam attack took place.
00:11Malik Arjun Kargay, the Congress chief, has actually claimed this.
00:15He says that Prime Minister Modi was to visit Kashmir, cancelled visit,
00:20because he knew this kind of a terror attack happened, saved himself, but didn't save the terrorists, the tourists, I beg your pardon.
00:26The Congress chief, Kargay, also saying and questioning why there were no soldiers for the safety of the tourists in Pehalgaam.
00:35Remember, the Prime Minister Modi was set to visit Kashmir just a few days before the terror attack happened.
00:41On April 19th, he was supposed to visit Kashmir.
00:44It was cancelled due to bad weather.
00:46Three days later, on 22nd April, is when the Pehalgaam terror attack happened.
00:50The Congress chief, Malik Arjun Kargay, says the Prime Minister cancelled his own visit
00:55because he knew this terror attack was happening, but didn't save the tourists.
00:58And I have also received information, and I have also received information in the paper that there have been written in the paper that three days before the war,
01:19in the war, in the war, in the war, the intelligence report was sent to Modi Modi,
01:26and that's why Modi Ji had to go Kashmir to Kashmir to go to Kashmir.
01:37I read this in a paper that I had read in a paper.
01:40When the intelligence people are saying that you don't need to know about your intelligence people, security people, police people, border force people,
02:07why didn't you tell me about your intelligence people, why didn't you tell me about your intelligence people?
02:37Even if you set that aside, Gaurav, the kind of comments that have come in from the Congress Chief, from Malikarjun Karge,
02:44about the Prime Minister is absolutely preposterous because he's suggesting that the Prime Minister cancelled it to save himself, didn't save the tourists.
02:52Well, you know, Mr. Malikarjun Karge, of course, may have his reasons to say what he is.
02:58But on India today, if I give you the factual position, and this is on the basis not of what government sources are telling India today,
03:05but a statement that was put out by Indian Railways officially and immediately after the Prime Minister's visit was cancelled or postponed at that point of time.
03:13If I may, this was on the 16th of April 2025 that the Ministry of Railways put out a statement saying postponed my news due to adverse weather forecast
03:25Inauguration program of the US DRL. This is that Uri Baramula link of the train is postponed for the next few days.
03:35Next date will be informed when decided. So the 16th of April at one o'clock in the afternoon.
03:41There was no intelligence input, but an official statement that the Indian Railways put out.
03:47You'd recall it was raining heavily. There was inclement weather and there were flash floods in some areas immediately after that.
03:56So politics aside, this is an issue of national security where India is desperately trying to corner radical Islamist terrorists
04:05and state sponsors of terrorism, which is Pakistan and Pakistan Army.
04:10That is India's effort and that is the government's effort.
04:14And perhaps the effort should be the whole of the nation approach with the opposition and the government on the same page when you deal with the enemy across,
04:22adversary across that is killing, singling out Hindus and killing them.
04:27Unfortunately, what we see is politics on the subject.
04:30But in case Malikarjun Kharge has details of intelligence inputs, he knows better.
04:37We are still waiting for that information to come out in public domain.
04:40He hasn't put out any proof, Gaurav.
04:43He's made this allegation versus what we've reported right here on India Today, which you told us about,
04:49that there was a clear communication that came in from the Indian Railway saying that it's because of adverse weather that the event has been cancelled.
04:56The opposition here, of course, has a right to question the government, question the government on whether there was a security failure on deployment of soldiers at that site.
05:04But here you have the Congress chief actually going ahead and suggesting that the prime minister cancelled his visit because of some intel input and cancelled his visit to Kashmir.
05:15But they didn't go ahead and protect tourists.
05:17And what does that do?
05:18That raises questions of the government's intent then.
05:20Let's play out again what exactly Malikarjun Kharge said.
05:23Let's play out again what exactly Malikarjun Kharge said.
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05:35A,
05:37TORMUTE,
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05:48I have written that three days ago, the intelligence report was sent to Modi ji, and that's why Modi ji
06:08ji nai kashmir jane ka program cancel kiya tha. Yeh mahi ek paper mein padha. Jep intelligence log
06:20aap ki raksha ke liye ye kaiite hai, aap jana munaasip nai hai, to aap wohi baat, aapne
06:34intelligence logon ko, security ko, wahan ke polish ko, wahan ke border force ko, aapne
06:44kyaun nahi itala diya, aur kyaun ya surakchit, logon ka surakchit pun, kyaun nahi.
06:51Rahul Gautam, who tracks the Congress for us, is also joining us on this broadcast. Rahul,
06:55we've had a number of statements that have come in from Congress leaders, which the High
07:00Command is dismissed, saying this is not our official stated position on the Pahalgam
07:04terror attack, and the party's response. You've now got the Congress chief now questioning the
07:09Prime Minister, questioning the government. So can we then assume that this is now the
07:13Congress' stated position, that they're claiming the Prime Minister cancelled his visit to Kashmir
07:18because of Intel reports suggesting a terror attack, and yet the government did nothing to
07:22protect tourists?
07:24Well, Congress stance has been that we're going to support government's action, but this does
07:29not mean that we're not going to ask questions on intelligence failure, on, you know, Pahalgam
07:35attack. But this comment that has come in from Malikarjun Kharge, Congress President, is certainly
07:40going to give apt opportunity to BJP to hit back at Congress, saying that from where did
07:46you get access, you know, of this particular information or this intelligence input, because
07:50as Gaurav, Savant, were also pointing out, there was an official statement from India, which
07:56clearly, you know, put the record straight that it was because of the adverse weather
08:01that Prime Minister cancelled his visit to Kashmir. So obviously, this is certainly going to
08:08stoke a controversy, given the fact that Malikarjun Kharge is suggesting that Prime Minister...
08:13Rahmat, stay with Mayor Ajay Alok of the BGP is joining us on this broadcast. Mr. Ajay Alok,
08:18the Congress is claiming here, and this is from the Congress Chief Malikarjun Kharge, he's saying
08:23that the Prime Minister cancelled his visit to Kashmir on April 19th, because there were
08:27specific intel inputs of a possible terrorist strike. And so the Prime Minister cancelled
08:32his visit, but the government could do nothing to save tourists. What's your response, sir?
08:38Mr. Kharge, what he has spoken, it has once again proved that Mr. Kharge, along with the whole
08:45Congress party, has gone senile. And it has proven our stand for the last four days that when we say
08:55that the Congress is absolutely behaving like a pro-Pakistani tool, that's what they are proving.
09:00They were never with the government, they were never with the nation. They always kept on saying
09:04that we are standing behind the government, we are with the government. Now this is the party line,
09:08and the party leaders should not, should throw the party line. Now this is the party line what Mr. Kharge has
09:12said today. And that's why all kind of statements are coming for the last 10 days. Today he has
09:17exposed himself completely and proved that Congress, along with its national president and
09:22Mr. Rahul Gandhi, has gone senile, berserk. They don't care about the national interest. Look at
09:27the kind of allegations he's levelling upon, that the Prime Minister knew about the incident,
09:33and the security forces didn't do anything.
09:34No, but Mr. Ajay Alok, just focusing on what Kharge is suggesting here, that there was an intel
09:40failure. What's your response to that? As an opposition party, do they have the right
09:45to go ahead and constructively criticise the government on the Bail Gama attack?
09:50When there was an all-party meet, everything was discussed. And when they came out of the
09:54all-party meeting, they said they were to stand firmly behind the government. And this is our
09:58crisis. There has been their official line. Even two days back, Rahul Gandhi and Kharge issued
10:04a statement asking their party leaders to be in the party line when they were making
10:08bursak statements like Siddharamaya, then, what is it, oh, that Mahalir to Maharashtra
10:13Vadakti Maar, then Ajay Raya, most recently yesterday. But today, after Mr. Kharge speaking
10:19like this, it has been proved that Congress stand was right from the beginning pro-Pakistan
10:23stand. And today, they want to reduce the morale of the country. They want to reduce the
10:28morale of the army. And today, they have levelled allegations against the Prime Minister, which
10:32is of a grave, grave thing. And this cannot be tolerated.
10:36All right, Mr. Ajay Alok, thank you for joining us with your view on this. The BJP lashing
10:40out at Malik Arjun Kharge for this comment, saying it's an attack on the country. It's an
10:45attack on the Prime Minister. We've been seeing a series of controversial comments by Congress
10:50leaders. But now, the chief of the Congress party saying that the Prime Minister's visit
10:56to Kashmir just a few days before the Pahal Gama terror attack on April 19th was cancelled
11:01because of specific intel that the Prime Minister received off a terrorist strike and that's
11:07why his trip was cancelled. So, Kharge then saying, why wasn't the tourists in Pahal Gama
11:12also protected? The reality is that the Prime Minister's visit to Kashmir was cancelled due
11:18to adverse weather.