The Congress hit out at the Centre on Wednesday over the deaths of soldiers in recent terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the Modi government will have to answer for the “intelligence failure”. Four soldiers have been martyred in the last 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir — Major Ketan Sharma, Rifleman Anil Kumar Jaswal, Havildar Amarjeet Kumar and Naik Ajit Kumar — Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said. In all, 10 soldiers were martyred over the last week, he added. “I salute their sacrifice for the motherland,” Surjewala said in a tweet in Hindi. Two soldiers were martyred and several injured in a terror attack on an Army vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama, he said. “This is completely a big intelligence failure of the government,” the Congress leader said. He pointed out that five jawans were martyred in an attack on CRPF personnel in Anantnag last week, and asked whether any lesson was learnt. Seven civilians were seriously injured in a terror attack on a police station in Pulwama, Surjewala said. “We have full faith in the valour of our security forces. Today itself they have killed two terrorists,” he added. “But, the central government will have to answer for the intelligence failure. It will have to answer why are attacks taking place continuously,” the Congress leader said. On Monday, an Army major was martyred and a militant was killed, while another officer and two jawans were injured in an encounter in Anantnag district. On the same day in Pulwama, nine Army personnel and two civilians were injured when terrorists triggered a blast through an improvised explosive device (IED) fitted to a vehicle. Two of the jawans succumbed to the injuries on Tuesday, while the others are recuperating at a hospital. At least seven civilians were injured in a grenade attack by terrorists on a police station in Pulwama.
