At least seven people have been injured by two simultaneous explosions in the Indian Kashmir capital city of Jammu ahead of a controversial opposition march against the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra movement, led by former Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi, is located about 60 kilometers from the city, which has been on high alert for days.
Gandhi, still with an enormous ascendancy over the party, now led by his mother, Sonia, blames the ultra-nationalist prime minister for a long list of negligence at the head of the Indian government, from acts of wastefulness to permissiveness with violence against women, including the rise in fuel prices and the increase in unemployment.
The march is the prelude to a campaign against Modi and his Indian People’s Party that will begin on January 26 in the run-up to the string of local elections starting next month.
At the moment there is no information on the nature of the explosions, police sources told the ‘Hindustan Times’.
One of the injured is in critical condition and the entire area is cordoned off, according to authorities.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
