A senior official of Vishva Hindu Parishad on Tuesday announced that Bajrang Dal will hold a nationwide rally against a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir Reasi on Wednesday. Nine people, including a two-year-old child, were killed in the incident and several others were injured.
Bajrang Dal is the youth wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological fountainhead of the BJP.
Milind Parande, general secretary (of the organization) of the VHP, condemned the incident and said, “It was a cowardly attack by Pakistan-backed Islamic terrorists.”
He added: “The VHP’s youth wing, Bajrang Dal, has decided to burn effigies of Islamic terrorism across the country tomorrow (Wednesday) and submit a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu through the respective district collectors, urging her to ensure strict action against the perpetrators.”
Terrorists on Sunday opened fire on the 53-seater bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi, killing nine people, including a two-year-old child, and leaving dozens more injured.
The incident took place when the bus was heading from Shiv Khori temple to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine at Katra near Teryath village in Poni area, PTI reported.
According to PTI reports, the VHP leader paid tribute to the pilgrims who died in the terror attack and wished speedy recovery to those injured in the incident.
Efforts to locate the terrorists involved in the attack on pilgrims in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir continued on Tuesday, with 11 teams of security personnel working on the ground and a multi-directional cordon placed around the Poni-Treyath belt, they said. officials. saying.
Security forces have activated a high alert in Jammu and Rajouri districts and intensified checks and searches in the belt following the terror attack that left nine dead and 41 injured, they said.
According to officials, more than 20 people have been detained for questioning.
A multi-directional cordon has been established around the Poni-Treyath belt and 11 teams of security officials continued their intensive operations on Tuesday to find the terrorists responsible for the attack on pilgrims in Reasi area of Jammu and Kashmir.
Following the terror incident that left nine dead and 41 injured, security personnel in the belt increased checks and frisking and issued a high alert in Jammu and Rajouri districts, officials added.
Officials say more than twenty people have been detained for questioning, according to PTI.