New Delhi, May 1 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday demanded martyr status for the 26 victims of the deadly Pahalgam attack and requested the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "respect the sentiments of the families of those who lost their lives by giving honour to them."

"I stand with the families of those killed in the Pahalgam attack in their grief and in their demand for martyr status. The Prime Minister is requested to respect the sentiments of the families of those who lost their lives in this tragedy by giving this honour to them," the Congress leader wrote in a post on X.

The Congress leader had posted a clips of his meeting in Kanpur with the family of Shubham Dwivedi, one of the victims of the April 22 attack in Pahalga...