Congress Asks If Blast Will Be Treated As ‘Act of War’ As per New Doctrine

Pawan Khera questions security lapses, demands accountability and an early Parliament debate on the attack

xNew Delhi: The Congress on Thursday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should immediately chair an all-party meeting in the aftermath of the Delhi blast and asked whether the "new normal doctrine" defined by the government following the Pahalgam attack of treating any future terror strike as an "act of war" stands.

Congress' media and publicity department head, Pawan Khera, called for fixing of accountability and asserted that someone in the government should take responsibility, recalling that the then home minister Shivraj Patil had resigned following the Mumbai terror attack under the UPA.

"The surprising thing is that after 48 hours, it was the Cabinet that announced