J-K BJP alleges 7 members of a party were present during militant attack in Sopore, demands probe

The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP alleged on Saturday that seven members of a political party wearing helmets were present at the site of a recent militant attack in Sopore, and demanded an investigation into it.A BJP spokesman asked whether the party members knew about the attack beforehand.Seven members of a particular political party were wearing cricket helmets when two of our municipal councillors were killed in a militant attack in Sopore in north Kashmirs Baramulla district recently.... Police must investigate it thoroughly, he said.

The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP alleged on Saturday that seven members of a political party wearing helmets were present at the site of a recent militant attack in Sopore, and demanded an investigation into it.

A BJP spokesman asked whether the party members knew about the attack beforehand.

''Seven members of a particular political party were wearing cricket helmets when two of our municipal councillors were killed in a militant attack in Sopore in north Kashmir's Baramulla district recently.... Is this political terrorism? Did these seven members already know that there would be a militant attack?'' BJP spokesman Altaf Thakur said, without naming the party.

Two municipal councillors and a policeman were killed in the militant attack in Sopore on March 29.

Thakur demanded a thorough investigation into the incident.

''Why were they wearing helmets? Police must investigate it thoroughly,'' he said.