NEW DELHI: The people of this country will not forgive any party that tries to take political advantage out of the Pulwama terror attack, the Congress said on Monday. "If anyone and I am not at the moment taking the name of anyone or referring to anyone, tries to politicise it, to take political merit or demerit out of it, I do not think the people of this country would at all acknowledge it, recognise it or feed it as a valid form of discourse," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said.

He said this when asked about BJP leaders raising the terror strike in their speeches.

"If any political party, ruling or otherwise, tries to make political capital advantage out of it, I do not think it is for me to say, I think the people of this country will not forget it and forgive," PTI quoted Singhvi as saying.

On Thursday,  40 CRPF personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir when a Jaish-e-Mohammed suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district.
Asked if Prime Minister Narendra Modi had consulted Congress President Rahul Gandhi about any proposed action against the Pakistan, Singhvi said even if there had been any such discussion, no one, not even the Congress as a party would be privy to it because this might well involve issues of national security.

"All that is in the public domain is what you and I know, that there was a political consultation between parties a couple of days ago, but beyond that, in terms of the confidential nature of the question...neither I am privy to it nor has anybody talked about it," he said.