New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): Congress leader KC Venugopal on Tuesday targeted Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his speech in Lok Sabha during discussion on Operation Sindoor and said he 'did not utter a single word on 'security failure'.

Participating in the discussion, Venugopal said it is the government's responsibility to ensure the security of tourists coming to the Kashmir Valley.

Venugopal said that, apart from the security failure, the Home Minister spoke on everything.

'Just like our colleagues, I also salute the brave soldiers of our country, those who are part of OperationSindoor. But I totally wondered, while hearing the speech of Home Minister Amit Shah. He talked about a lot of things. My colleague Gaurav Gogoi started with a security failure issue. Everybody from this side repeated the same argument but our Home Minister didn't take a single word of security failure. Other than security failure, he spoke on everything,' Venugopal said.

Venugopal said that terrorists killed the tourists but the government failed to provide security.

'If you are calling tourists to visit Kashmir, is it not your primary duty to make available security for them?...We agree that terrorists are responsible for this incident (Pahalgam). Pakistan is behind this. But who gave the valuable 26 people's lives to the terrorists? Your ignorance,' he added.

In his speech Amit Shah said that through Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi worked to finish off the masters of the terrorists involved in the Pahalgam attack and yesterday Army and CRPF also killed three terrorists involved in Pahalgam killings.

The Home Minister said that Operation Mahadev is a very big joint success of our country's Army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police, on which 140 crore people of the country are proud. He said that after the terrorist attack, he went to Pahalgam and met the families of the deceased there.

Amit Shah said that the day Lashkar and its outfit TRF took responsibility for the Pahalgam attack, we had decided that NIA will investigate this attack.

He said that NIA has expertise as a globally recognized agency in scientifically investigating terrorist cases and bringing the culprits to justice and NIA's conviction rate is more than 96 per cent.

Amit Shah said that the investigation of the Pahalgam attack was immediately handed over to NIA and the Army, BSF, CRPF and Jammu Kashmir Police made full arrangements to ensure that these terrorists could not leave the country and flee to Pakistan.

He told the House that at the beginning of the investigation of the attack, discussions were held with the families of the deceased, a total of 1055 people including tourists, mule owners, pony owners, photographers, employees and shop workers were interrogated for more than 3000 hours and all this was recorded on video.

Shah informed the House that based on the information received from interrogation, sketches of the terrorists were made and Bashir and Parvez were identified who had given shelter to the terrorists the day after the Pahalgam attack.

He said that Bashir and Parvez were arrested and they revealed that on the night of April 21, 2025, at 8 pm, three terrorists had come to them and they had two AK-47s and one M4 carbine. Amit Shah informed the House that the mother of Bashir and Parvez has also identified the three killed terrorists, and this has been confirmed by FSL as well. He said that these three were the terrorists involved in the Pahalgam attack, and two AK-47 and one M9 carbine recovered from them were used in this attack. (ANI)