[<<“The Pulwama attack took place at 3.10pm. We (the Congress) want to ask 
the Prime Minister what he was doing between 3.10pm and 5.10pm? The reason 
why this question is important is because at 5.10pm, the Prime Minister 
addressed a rally on his mobile phone. He didn’t utter a word on the 
Pulwama attack,” Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said at a news 
conference.
The party played a video clip of news of the public rally that was shown on 
Doordarshan on February 14.
“You can see people are shouting slogans and jumping up and down in joy as 
the Prime Minister addresses the rally. The Prime Minister could have 
condemned the attack, observed two minutes’ silence to pay tribute to our 
soldiers. At 5.10pm, he would have known of the attack. That’s why the 
question: What was the Prime Minister doing between 3.10pm and 5.10pm?” 
Tewari said.>>

(Excerpted from the write-up reproduced below.)

The clinching evidence:
<<There's a news plant which says PM Modi was informed 30 min late about 
the terrorist attack on Pulwama. Here is a news clip from a @DDNewsLive 
broadcast that shows him addressing a rally at 5.10 PM.

A full THREE hours after the attack.
Note the ticker...
#FarziChowkidar #DaroMat>>

at <https://twitter.com/chirag/status/1098787667255296000/video/1>
(In a live transmission of the speech, the ticker is announcing the Pulwama 
tragedy, since before the speech commences.
Yet, the Prime Minister is silent.
Also, the response from the audience and from the dais.)

Also noteworthy:

I. <<While it is not clear whether the Discovery shoot occurred before or 
after he would have been informed, it is a matter of record that he 
addressed a public rally in Rudrapur, some 85 kms away, by telephone from 
Corbett at 5:10 pm. In that speech, he made no mention of the Pulwama 
attack, even though in every speech he has made since then, Pulwama figures 
prominently.
...
Playing a Doordarshan clip of the Rudrapur speech, (Manish) Tewari said the 
prime minister did not mention Pulwama even once in his speech. Nor did he 
ask the jubilant crowd to observe silence. This, despite the fact that the 
channel was running a simultaneous ticker that said “10 soldier or 10 CRPF 
Jawans have died in Pulwama”.
Congress’s posers 
This raises two very important questions, Tewari said.
1. Was the PM aware of the attack and yet continued with his photo shoot, 
“posing as commander Corbett?” Tewari said “if he was aware” and chose not 
to interrupt his schedule, “there can be no greater insensitivity.”
“He has his lunch, shoots some photographs of some wildlife on his mobile 
phone and life is absolutely normal for him, while 40 jawans have laid down 
their lives in one of the most heinous terror attacks the country has 
seen,” Tewari said.
2. “Between 03:10 pm and 05:10 pm, was the Prime Minister of India unaware 
that a terror attack had taken place in Pulwama?” He said that “the second 
scenario is far more frightening” and “is a cause of concern.”
He added if he was actually not aware, as some channels reported soon after 
the Congress’s allegations, then it points to a grave crisis in the 
“command and control systems in the highest echelons of the Indian state.”
...
***“We are a nuclear state and if there is a breakdown in communication 
between the prime minister and his office, it has very portentous 
implications. That is why, this nation must know from the mouth of the 
prime minister, who otherwise speaks nonstop 24X7, that Mr. Prime Minister 
what were you doing between 03:10 pm in the afternoon and 05:10 pm in the 
afternoon,” the Congress leader asked, alleging “incompetence” on the part 
of the Modi government.*** [Emphasis added.]>>
(Ref.: 
<https://thewire.in/politics/modi-pulwama-documentary-congress/amp/?fbclid=IwAR2Dpwlhkfz5aEdfpxU_3JyIshtoq44bn50MH9f_PIoKEIaLb53i3iyt7PA#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s>.)

II. <<Of course, this suggestion (that the NSA delayed in informing) is a 
bigger scandal than Modi simply being insensitive in the face of a major 
tragedy: if bad weather or poor mobile-phone network can prevent 
information reaching India’s prime minister while he is on a scheduled 
trip, that raises bigger questions about the state of the country’s 
security apparatus.>>
(Ref,: 
<https://scroll.in/article/914174/did-modi-continue-shooting-a-documentary-after-pulwama-attacks-or-did-doval-fail-to-inform-him?fbclid=IwAR2Oy78TN1qEoFJBBUG_xoTHWzRxh2cBLQ1YxjoGBJshzH1BObCBjHYxcHQ>.)

Other sources of relevance:
I. 
<https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/pulwama-attack-narendra-modi-corbett-photoshoot-rudrapur-rally-rahul-gandhi?fbclid=IwAR2smn3SGfxC44zSk0YAHsomq3UbxOyp2D11obL8Q-CvsJEjTsbY55vjYpQ#gs.gF397Z68>.
II. 
<https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/pm-modi-unreachable-pulwama-attack-jim-corbett-shoot-congress?fbclid=IwAR3lvaLXeCH4qCZ-RfUoNX-DuMsD1VVzNMoPT4Mpz0VGq4xqCCtbGXPAdig#gs.0ndF4ddd>.
III. 
<https://scroll.in/article/914206/when-exactly-did-narendra-modi-learn-about-the-pulwama-attack-and-what-did-he-do-afterwards?fbclid=IwAR1SkLrCjH_lBNPnQXH3uMkVb_TxIr9BW3qtvT35IMOocaXJbQ_ZhRjObg8>.]

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/2-hour-mystery-shadows-modi/cid/1685314

2-hour mystery shadows Modi
Congress spokesperson: 'We want to ask the Prime Minister what he was doing 
between 3.10pm and 5.10pm?'

By Our Special Correspondent in New Delhi
Published 23.02.19, 3:21 AMUpdated 23.02.19, 10:45 AM
2 mins read
 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
(Prem Singh)
The Congress on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to himself tell 
the nation what he was doing between 3.10pm and 5.10pm on February 14 when 
the Pulwama attack took place.

“The Pulwama attack took place at 3.10pm. We want to ask the Prime Minister 
what he was doing between 3.10pm and 5.10pm? The reason why this question 
is important is because at 5.10pm, the Prime Minister addressed a rally on 
his mobile phone. He didn’t utter a word on the Pulwama attack,” Congress 
spokesperson Manish Tewari said at a news conference.

The party played a video clip of news of the public rally that was shown on 
Doordarshan on February 14.

“You can see people are shouting slogans and jumping up and down in joy as 
the Prime Minister addresses the rally. The Prime Minister could have 
condemned the attack, observed two minutes’ silence to pay tribute to our 
soldiers. At 5.10pm, he would have known of the attack. That’s why the 
question: What was the Prime Minister doing between 3.10pm and 5.10pm?” 
Tewari said.

The Congress leadership has decided to pursue this matter with full force 
and party president Rahul Gandhi is expected to harp on the Prime 
Minister’s “insensitivity” and “incompetence” in the coming days.

Rahul tweeted in Hindi on Friday: “The Prime Time Minister kept shooting 
for a film for three hours after news of the martyrdom of 40 soldiers in 
Pulwama came. A river of pain erupted in the heart of the country and the 
homes of martyrs, but he was gleefully in the river for a photoshoot.”

A river of pain erupted in the heart of the country and the homes of 
martyrs, but he (Modi) was gleefully in the river for a photoshoot.

Rahul Gandhi
At the news conference, Tewari said: “This raises two questions: One, was 
the Prime Minister aware of the attack and continued with his photoshoot? 
If yes, there can be no greater insensitivity than this. Then at 5.10pm, he 
deliberately chooses not to mention a word about the attack. The Prime 
Minister continues to be Commander Corbett. He has his lunch, shoots some 
photographs of wild life on his mobile phone and life is absolutely normal 
for him, while 40 jawans have laid down their lives in one of the most 
heinous terror attacks the country has seen.”

The Congress spokesperson continued: “The second scenario is even far more 
frightening. Was it that between 3.10pm and 5.10pm, Modiji was unaware of 
the terror attack? The PMO did not inform him or he was incommunicado? What 
does it speak about command and control systems in the highest echelons of 
the Indian state? We are a nuclear state and if there is a breakdown in 
communication between the PM and his office, it has very portentous 
implications.”

Party veteran Ahmed Patel iterated this through a tweet: “It is a matter of 
grave concern that the Prime Minister was incommunicado at the time of an 
attack on the nation’s sovereignty.”

Tewari said the Prime Minister’s response betrayed either incompetence or 
insensitivity, and insisted: “The nation must know from the mouth of the 
Prime Minister, who otherwise speaks non-stop, ‘what were you doing between 
3.10pm and 5.10pm?’ If you knew, why didn’t you mention it at the rally? If 
you didn’t, can there be greater incompetence?”

The Congress spokesperson also confronted BJP chief Amit Shah for saying 
that they don’t need to learn nationalism from the Congress. “Does the BJP 
have monopoly over nationalism?… Is asking tough questions about how so 
many soldiers died anti-national?” he asked.

The Congress will be happy to debate on terrorism, given the BJP’s track 
record: Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar was freed by a BJP government 
and the Parliament attack happened during its rule.

Also Read
also read
Cong: Modi was on picnic in Corbett during Pulwama

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