Modi dithering on Kashmir as soldiers pay with blood: Rahul

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the PDP and BJP for continuing with their "opportunistic alliance" in Jammu and Kashmir even as soldier paid the price "with their blood."

Rahul also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "dithering" even as terrorist launched attacks on Army camp in Jammu and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for voicing divergent views on dealing with Pakistan.

"1. PDP says 'talks' with Pakistan. 2. BJP Defence Minister says 'Pakistan will pay the price'. While our soldiers pay with their blood for BJP/PDP's opportunistic alliance and non-existent Kashmir policy; Modi Ji dithers," Rahul said on Twitter.

Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari hit out at both Mufti and Sitharaman saying that it expected the government to "act" against terror and not "talk about terror" with Pakistan.

"This country does not want you to talk to Pakistan about terror; it wants you to act on the commitment that you had made to the people of India that you would act on the question of terror," Tewari said.

The Congress leader also questioned the Modi government's policy towards Pakistan and said that remarks such as 'Pakistan will have to pay ', made by the defence minister on Monday, did not serve any purpose as there was no decline in cross-border terrorism.

"It is in fact intensifying … we would like to ask them (government) what has this talking to Pakistan on terror yielded in the past 45 months," Tewari said.

Mufti had called for talks with Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue a day after terrorists attacked the Sunjwan Army Camp near Jammu and made an unsuccessful attempt to storm the CRPF camp in Srinagar.

Rahul has been accusing the Modi government of "opening up space" for terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir by entering into an "opportunistic alliance" with the PDP.

He had said that by entering into an alliance, the BJP had destroyed the PDP as an instrument that could bring youngsters of Kashmir into the political process.