Alwar, Feb 21 (UNI) Former Minister of State of Defence Jitendra Singh here on Thursday claimed that Pulwama terror attack was a “major failure” of Indian Intelligence agencies.
“The Pulwama attack is highly condemnable, but I can’t deny that there was an intelligence failure as I have worked in Defence,” said the former Congress leader, who was the Minister of State for Defence in 2012 under United Progressive Alliance government.
On February 14, in Kashmir's Pulwana district, a local having ‘association’ with militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad, crashed his explosive-laden vehicle into a bus ferrying Central Police Reserve Force personnel. The collision, resulting in a massive explosion, killed more than 40 CRPF jawans and reduced the bus into a heap of molten metal.