Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 27 May blamed the 1947 decision of Partition for the Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in Kashmir last month.

“When the Partition happened in 1947, the chains should have been cut at that time, but instead, the country was divided into three parts. Soon after, the first terrorist attack was reported in Kashmir, and Pakistan occupied one part of Kashmir," PM Modi said, addressing a gathering during the 20 years of Gujarat Urban Growth Story in Gujarat's Gandhinagar on Tuesday.

“If we had killed these Mujahideens; if we had listened to Sardar Patel, he wanted the Army not to stop until we get back PoK,” Modi said.

For 75 years, we suffered, and what happened in Pahalgam was a distorted form of that attack, Modi said. "The Indian Army has defeated Pakistan every time. Pakistan understood that it cannot win from India,” he said.