West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said the terror attack in J&K on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama which claimed 40 lives was due to “intelligence failure” and demanded that there be three-day nationwide mourning to show respect to the slain jawans.
She questioned why the Centre was not declaring national mourning for the CRPF jawans and said “Will mourning take place only when political leaders die?”
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“I demand 72 hours mourning for the ultimate sacrifice of the soldiers. At least for national respect. Only one flag is not enough for it,” she told reporters after returning from New Delhi.
Banerjee said that the government as well as all the political parties should put a stop to all scheduled programme in view of the terror attack.
“I am sorry to see that the prime minister inaugurated one project today. After any serious incident takes place, we should avoid political programmes and government programmes. Why have they (Centre) not declared a three-day mourning?
Describing the attack as “the biggest” one after the Uri terror attack in 2016 and said that people should not do politics with it.
“We do not want to do politics with this incident that is why we did not say anything. Not only us but all the other partyies who belong to the opposition have not said anything on this. All we said is that we stand by our countrymen,” she…
