Aday after the beheading of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, the Congress slammed the Narendra Modi government for the incident. In addition to saying the BJP has no policy on national security, Congress spokesperson Kapil Sibal said the government should "take off its bangles and do something."

With that comment, Sibal was referring to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's offer to send bangles to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, when Pakistan beheaded Indian soldiers during the UPA rule. Then, former minister AK Antony went on to state that the incident happened only once during the eight-year Congress regime compared to three such attacks in three years of the BJP's rule.