Mallikarjun Kharge asked the Centre why it didn't deploy more security in Pahalgam if it had the intelligence report.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his Jammu and Kashmir trip last month because he received an intelligence report three days before the Pahalgam terror attack. Addressing a rally in Jharkhand, Kharge further said the BJP-led Central government had admitted that the attack was the result of an intelligence failure.

Twenty-six people, mostly tourists, died when terrorists opened fire at a meadow near Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22. India has announced several punitive measures against Pakistan, including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, which governed the flow of the Indus River and its tributaries.

"There is an intelligence failure; the government has accepted it, and they will resolve it. If they knew this, why didn't they do anything? I got information that three days before the attack, an intelligence report was sent to PM Modi, and therefore, he cancelled his programme to visit Kashmir. I also read this in a newspaper," he was quoted as saying by the news agency ANI.

"Congress stands with the government for any action against Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack. The country is supreme," he said.

He asked the Centre why it didn't deploy more security in Pahalgam if it had the intelligence report, reported PTI.