Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala Sunday accused the Modi government of failing to give a "befitting response" to repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan. Addressing a 'Shaheed Samman Samaroh' here, organised by Rao Arjun Singh, the grandson of former Haryana chief minister Rao Birender Singh, Surjewala criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "stoic silence" on the mutilation of Indian soldiers.

"Pakistan is attacking our soldiers and has violated the ceasefire three thousand times in last 52 months but Modi government has failed to give a befitting response," Surjewala said. He claimed that during the same period, as many as 411 soldiers were martyred in Jammu and Kashmir and 256 civilians lost their lives in terrorist attacks.