Amarnath Yatra was never stopped even during height ofterrorism in J&K: Congress

A day after the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government askedthe Amarnath yatra pilgrims and the tourists to curtail their stay in theValley and leave as soon as possible, The Congress on saturday said that thepilgrimage was never stopped even during the height of terrorism in the state.

"Never ever in the past, during MMS, Atal BihariVajpayee, Narsimha Rao's time, did the govt ask the pilgrims to curtail theirstay and come back. This kind of situation never arose in the past. This isunprecedented," Ghulam Nabi Azad told in a press conference.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration was prompted to curtailthe Amarnath yatra after the Indian Army said that Pakistan terrorists wereplotting to carry out an attack on the ongoing pilgrimage.He said the advisoryissued by Home Ministry yesterday is worrisome and added that the people of theentire nation as well as of Jammu and Kashmir are scared. "No govt hasever asked tourists to go back. Such a thing has never happened."