BJP MP Says Pahalgam Attack Widows Should Have Fought Back Terrorists, Draws Opposition Ire

Rajya Sabha MP Ram Chander Jangra on Saturday (May 24, 2025) courted a controversy with his remarks that the tourists, who lost their lives in Pahalgam, should have put up a fight against the terrorists and the women, who lost their husbands in the attack, should have acted like 'veerangna' (warrior women).

The BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP from Haryana was addressing a gathering at Haryana’s Bhiwani in an event organised to mark the 300th birth anniversary of Ahilyabai Holkar.

Twenty-six people were killed in the terror attack in Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag district on April 22.