Perpetrators of Pulwama attack won't be spared, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Chennai: Asserting that Pakistan now stood isolated from the rest of the world due to the “dastardly act,” Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday warned that the perpetrators of the suicide attack in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir in which at least 37 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed, will not go unpunished. Mr Prasad, who was scheduled to attend a series of events in Madurai, cancelled all the programmes as a mark of respect to the departed souls.

“I have come here in some unfortunate circumstances. The attack on security forces yesterday in Kashmir is dastardly. We condemn it. The Prime Minister has said and we have said that the country stands fully and firmly behind the sacrifice of the brave jawans of the CRPF. Surely, their sacrifice will not be allowed to go in vain,” the minister said.

Speaking to reporters in Madurai on Friday, he assured that there would be appropriate and suitable response as may be strategically decided.

“We are assured to note that the entire world has condemned this dastardly incident. Pakistan stands isolated. And as the Home Minister has stated and the Prime Minister has conveyed, I wish to join them that those who have perpetrated, supported, patronised such kind of heinous offence shall not go unpunished,” the Central minister warned. He knew that his party workers had organised a huge meeting today of the Sakthi Kendra incharge, but the party decided to postpone all the functions in memory of those brave security forces. “Because the BJP firmly believes in secure India and standing with our forces. We always say we live for the country who dies for the country - the security forces,” Ravi Shankar emphasised. On Thursday he had addressed the Sakthi Kendra in-charge in Vellore.