The federal government on Thursday briefed leaders of varied political events on the Pahalgam terror assault and heard their views at an all-party assembly right here. In the beginning of the assembly, a second of silence was noticed for the victims of the assault.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju had been current from the federal government’s facet.
Chief of the Home in Rajya Sabha J P Nadda, Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi had been current on the assembly chaired by Singh.
Those that attended the assembly included NCP-SP’s Supriya Sule, NCP’s Praful Patel, AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi, BJD’s Sasmit Patra, YSRCP’s Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu, Shiv Sena’s Shrikant Shinde, AAP’s Sanjay Singh, TMC’s Sudip Bandopadhyay, RJD’s Premchand Gupta, DMK’s T Siva and SP’s Ram Gopal Yadav.
The all-party assembly comes a day after the federal government introduced a number of measures concentrating on Pakistan within the aftermath of Tuesday’s Pahalgam terror assault, which claimed the lives of 26 folks, principally vacationers.
The choice to name an all-party assembly was taken on Wednesday, with Singh and Shah reaching out to numerous events.
It has been a conference to name an all-party assembly following an incident with severe repercussions associated to nationwide safety, as was seen after the Pulwama terror assault in 2019 or through the India-China standoff in 2020.
It helps current an image of nationwide unity in moments of disaster and permits opposition leaders to convey their views to the federal government and be briefed intimately on the official place.
Concentrating on Pakistan following the Pahalgam assault, India on Wednesday downgraded diplomatic ties with it and introduced a raft of measures, together with expulsion of Pakistani army attaches, suspension of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 and instant shutting down of the Attari land-transit publish.
The choices had been taken at a gathering of the Cupboard Committee on Safety chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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