section_path: Reactions/Domestic reactions/Political leaders
section_name: Political leaders
paragraph_text: Political leaders
  
  "Militancy and terrorism will end when people will support us. This is the beginning of that... We should not say or show anything which harms this movement that has arisen... We can control militancy using guns, it will end only when people support us. And now it seems people are reaching that point."
  
  The attack drew immediate widespread condemnation from political leaders. Indian president Droupadi Murmu called it a "dastardly and inhuman act." Vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar called the act "reprehensible" and condemned it. Modi termed the attack as "shocking and painful" and said that those responsible would be brought to justice.
  
  Chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah described the incident as "much larger than anything we've seen directed at civilians in recent years." Defence minister Rajnath Singh labelled it an "act of cowardice." The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, criticised the Indian government's policy on Kashmir in light of the attack but also extended support to the government to deal with the threat. President of the AIMIM, Asaduddin Owaisi, criticised Pakistan for its purported involvement in the terror attack at Pahalgam, accusing the country of being the successor of ISIS.