India home minister challenges account of 2019 deadly attack on military convoy

The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has nothing to conceal in relation to a deadly attack on a military convoy in Kashmir in 2019, according to India’s home minister.

Earlier this month, Satya Pal Malik, the former governor of Jammu and Kashmir, claimed that due to lapses in intelligence to identify a threat, paramilitary forces were forced to travel by road instead of the air.

Malik warned Modi that the attack was a failure on the side of the administration, but he was advised to keep quiet, he told the local news source the Wire.

The credibility of the comments needed to be questioned, said Home Minister Amit Shah during a roundtable discussion on the India Today TV program.

He declared, “I would definitely inform the people of the nation that the Bharatiya Janata Party government has done nothing that needs to be concealed.”

The first official retort to Malik’s accusations is seen in his remarks.

The bloodiest attack on security personnel in Kashmir in decades, which also increased tensions with Pakistan, occurred on February 14, 2019, when a suicide bomber crashed his car into a bus carrying Indian paramilitary police, killing 40 of them.

Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), a Pakistan-based jihadist organization, took credit for the assault.

The conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan has been centered on the Muslim-majority territory of Kashmir for many years. The neighbors each control a portion of the land while staking claim to the full area.