Bhopal: A top Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) functionary on Tuesday alleged that the terrorist attack on pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district two days ago was "sponsored by Pakistan".

Addressing a press conference here, VHP organization general secretary Milind Parande said his organisation's youth wing, Bajrang Dal, will hold nationwide protests on Wednesday to condemn the attack in which nine people were killed and 41 others injured. Done, and will express its condolences to those people. Who lost their lives.

"In protest against the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attack on the day the new government was taking oath, VHP's youth wing Bajrang Dal will hold a nationwide protest on Wednesday, paying homage to those killed and offering prayers at the earliest," Parande said. "The condition of those who were injured is improving."

He said that Bajrang Dal workers would burn effigies of terrorists and submit a memorandum addressed to the President of India through district collectors.

He said "jihadi terrorism" was also spreading its tentacles in West Bengal and Assam and called it a threat to democracy in the country.

On Sunday, terrorists opened fire on a 53-seater bus carrying pilgrims when it was going from Shiv Khori temple near Terayath village in Poni area of ​​Reasi district to Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Katra.

The bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi fell into a deep gorge after the firing.