Oppn slams 'failure' of Centre, calls for more accountability

Top Opposition leaders condemned the terror attack at Pahalgam and condoled the death of 26 people, although some of them also questioned the Union government's previous claims on the return of normalcy to the Valley and pointed to the obvious intelligence and security failure highlighted by a terror strike in one of the region's tourist hotspots.

- Saubhadra Chatterji

NEW DELHI:

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Lok Sabha's Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi spoke to Union home minister Amit Shah, and both suggested that this was not the time for politics, although Gandhi sought "accountability" from the government and Kharge asked that the perpetrators of the attack be brought to justice.