Yesterday the country witnessed a barbaric attack on Hindu pilgrims who were returning after taking Darshan at the holy Amarnath temple in Kashmir. At about 8:30 PM on Monday, as a bus carrying 60 Amarnath Pilgrims was returning to Jammu, terrorists opened fire at it. This led to the death of 7 pilgirms including 6 women and injured 19 more.
It is believed that 3-5 Pakistan backed terrorists led by one Ismael belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the attack. The casualties could have been more, but according to a passenger on that bus, the driver heroically drove through a hail of bullets to ensure that the bus reached to safety.
This attack shocked the nation. While most were demanding retributive justice and accountability from the government, there were few politicians and media persons who shamelessly tried to politicise the gruesome murder to peddle their agenda:
https://twitter.com/SitaramYechury/status/884448576549511168
The CPM leader whose party in Kerala allows murders of RSS workers to go on unabated, was slammed for his comment. He also conveniently forgot that pilgrims were attacked in 2006 and 2007, when his party had extended support to the UPA government:
https://twitter.com/AapGhumaKeLeLo/status/884458337710080000
https://twitter.com/Ra_Bies/status/884465897691258881
AAP MLA Alka Lamba, who in the past had laughed about her delaying a fire rescue operation, decided to peddle a cringeworthy conspiracy theory. She was widely slammed for this comment, following which she deleted the tweet:
https://twitter.com/coolfunnytshirt/status/884463747342807040
https://twitter.com/SmokingSkills_/status/884481319362732035
Modi hating ex-cop, who regularly spreads anti-India propaganda, also joined in spreading the conspiracy theory, which was shared widely by Pakistanis and anti-Hindu commentators, as generally happens with his tweets:
https://twitter.com/sanjivbhatt/status/884478208761970688
https://twitter.com/SuryahSG/status/884482179719323648
Even journalists didn’t want to be left behind. A comment by controversial journalist Barkha Dutt, suggesting that the Yatra should have been suspended this year, was slammed as being akin to ‘victim blaming’:
https://twitter.com/Hardism/status/884456289153282049
https://twitter.com/TrulyMonica/status/884476644446031873
One so-called journalist, with a history of peddling unsubstantiated claims, subtly painted the attackers as ‘militants’:
https://twitter.com/RanaAyyub/status/884447090197319681
https://twitter.com/CW_dynastycrook/status/884458380923854848
https://twitter.com/Nesenag/status/884472142263443456
Some where more concerned about ‘Kashmiri Suffering’ than hate crime against Hindus, such as senior journalist Shekhar Gupta of ‘coup’ fame:
https://twitter.com/ShekharGupta/status/884443226895138816
https://twitter.com/rahulroushan/status/884446249063260161
https://twitter.com/divya_16_/status/884457908783554561
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