Red Fort blast: After PDP chief, Congress' Hussain Dalwai links blast to 'injustice' in J&K

Hours after Peoples Democratic Party chief attributed the recent terror attack near Delhi's Red Fort that claimed 13 lives and left several injured to Centre's failed policies in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress leader Hussain Dalwai echoing similar sentiments said the explosion that killed 13 people was likely a repercussion for the "injustice" being done in Jammu and Kashmir.

In another controversial statement,  Dalwai questioned why bomb blasts happen during elections. On November 10, a blast ripped through a car which stopped at a red signal on a jam-packed road near the Red Fort, just a day before the Bihar assembly election results.

"Why are there bomb attacks around elections? This should be probed. This could also be the repercussion for the injustice in Jammu and Kashmir," Dalwai said. BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari hit out at Dalwai, calling his remark a "pure vote bank politics".

"These allegations are as hopeless as when Congress was in power, and they said that Pakistan was not involved in the Mumbai terror attack. They said it was an RSS conspiracy. This is the trajectory of the Congress party. They always issue such hopeless and bizarre remarks. And they do that because they believe it will pander to their vote-bank," he said.