Hyderabad, April 28 -- Sensing the gravity of the post-Pahalgam situation Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while making his first public appearance at Jhanjharpur in Madhubani district after the April 22 mayhem, apparently avoidedpoliticizing the incident, yet Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge questioned his absence from the all-party meeting in Delhi to attend what he called an election rally in Bihar.

However, what sounded somewhat unusual is that the Prime Minister chose Madhubani, a district having a substantial Maithil Brahmin population, bordering Nepal and not Jammu and Kashmir to warn Pakistan. As the timing and location of message are very important, the choice of Bihar has certainly diluted its significance. He reiterated his ...