New Delhi, Feb 16 (UNI) While reiterating that the Opposition stand with the government and soldiers for the unity and security of the country, the Congress on Saturday requested Home Minister Rajnath Singh to urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to call a meeting of the leaders of all political parties.
Talking to mediapersons after an all party meeting convened by the Home Minister, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the Prime Minister should have called a meeting of all national and regional parties.
'We had appealed to the Home Minister to request the Prime Minister on our behalf to ask presidents of all national and regional parties for a meeting. This was supported by other parties too. The entire nation is angry and in mourning,' he said.
The meeting was attended by Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Cabinet Minister Anand Sharma, AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal, Congress leader Jyotiraditya Schindia, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Satish Chandra Mishra of BSP, RJD leader JP Yadav anf CPI(M) leader TK Rangarajan.
Besides, AITC leaders Sudeep Bandhopadhyay and Derek O'Brien, CPI leader D Raja, Akali Dal's Naresh Gujral and Prem Singh Chandumaia, TRS leader Jitendra Reddy, Ram Mohan Naidu of TDP, Sanjay Singh of AAP, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, Upendra Kushwaha of RSLD, Muslim League leader PK Kunhalikkutty, Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and the Additional Director General of CRPF also attended the meeting.
The Home Minister briefed the Opposition leaders about the situation in the valley, falling the incident and the course of action that the government proposes to take in the coming days.
The MP Azad further said that he had also pointed out that except in war, this was the first time since Independence, such large number of security personal have been killed in an attack.
'We stand with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Army and the CRPF. We stand with the government so that terrorism is ended and the nation stays together. Congress fully supports the government in ending terrorism,' the Congress leader said.
The all party meeting unanimously passed a resolution, condemning the support given to acts of terrorism from across the border.
'We strongly condemn the dastardly terror act of February 14, 2019 at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir in which lives of 40 jawans of CRPF were lost. 'We, along with our countrymen, stand with their families in this hour of grief. We condemn terrorism in all its forms and the support given to it from across the border,' the resolution said.
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