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The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Congress connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) powerfully condemned the murderous onslaught connected erstwhile Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah successful Jammu and said “those entrusted with maintaining instrumentality and bid indispensable beryllium held accountable”.
Mr. Abdullah had a constrictive flight erstwhile a gunman allegedly opened occurrence astatine him from down portion helium was leaving a matrimony relation astatine Greater Kailash connected the outskirts of Jammu connected Wednesday (March 11) night.
Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary and advisor to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Nasir Aslam Wani, were besides accompanying Mr. Abdullah erstwhile the incidental occurred.
Kamal Singh Jamwal, who allegedly fired a changeable targeting National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary astatine a wedding function, being detained by radical earlier being handed implicit to information personnel, successful Jammu connected March 11, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI
The accused, identified arsenic 63-year-old Kamal Singh Jamwal, a nonmigratory of Purani Mandi successful Jammu, was arrested and told constabulary that helium had been waiting for an accidental to people Mr. Abdullah for the past 20 years.
Jammu and Kashmir Congress Committee president Tariq Hamid Karra termed the incidental shocking and said it raised superior concerns astir the prevailing information concern successful the region.
“Strongly condemn the shocking firing incidental connected erstwhile CM Farooq Abdullah and different elder leaders …Such acts of unit are profoundly disturbing and rise superior concerns astir the prevailing information script successful the region,” Mr. Karra said successful a station connected X.
He said the expanding criminalisation and lawlessness cannot beryllium ignored.
“Those entrusted with maintaining instrumentality and bid indispensable beryllium held accountable. The radical merit safety, stability, and a unafraid environment, and it is the work of the medication to guarantee that specified incidents are not repeated,” helium said.
All India Congress wide caput and Congress Legislature Party person Ghulam Ahmed Mir besides condemned the incident, describing specified occurrences astatine nationalist places arsenic unfortunate.
“Such incidents are unfortunate. The information setup should analyse however this happened. The substance needs to beryllium addressed,” Mr. Mir said.
