Sanjay Raut, prominent Shiv Sena leader, has questioned whether the Pulwama attack of 2019, was staged to win the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
The Shiv Sena Raut has demanded that a sedition case be lodged against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, stated a report in The Hindu.
His remarks came after former Jammu Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik claimed in an interview that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dissuaded him from speaking about lapses that had led to the Pulwama incident.
Raut has also called for responsible ministers to be court-martialed for the attack.
Malik’s interview reveals lapses in Pulwama incident
Reportedly, Malik, during his interview, claimed that the CRPF had asked for aircraft to ferry their personnel as a convoy of 78 vehicles carrying over 2,500 personnel was too big to travel by road.
Malik’s remarks led Raut to say that the Opposition had asked these questions at the time of the attack but had been silenced by the BJP. Malik’s interview has brought out the “explosive truth about Pulwama,” according to Raut.
He has also questioned how RDX reached Pulwama despite tight security, asking why no air support was provided to the convoy. Security personnel do not normally travel along the Pulwama road.
Raut claimed that the BJP was trying to strangle the opposition by unleashing central agencies on them and framing them. He alleged that the BJP was trying to break the Nationalist Congress Party using the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation. Arvind Kejriwal has been slapped with a CBI notice while Tejashwi Yadav received ED and CBI summons, according to Raut.