Srinagar: Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district today, November 11, after unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire on a patrolling party.The CRPF, it is learnt, is briefing the Ministry of Home Affairs on the attack in Kulgam, and a high-level meeting is also underway at the home ministry.This attack has prompted a reaction from Congress leader Pawan Khera who questioned the Union government’s claim of normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir following the reading down of Article 370.The attack took place at around 2.15 pm, just few kilometres away from the National Highway 44 at Nowpora, Akhran near Mir Bazar, when the bike-borne assailants fired at CRPF personnel. The assailants fled away the spot, officials said.According to CRPF officials, the injured personnel, belonging to the 46th Battalion, were immediately rushed to Government Medical College (GMC) at Anantnag for medical attention.The injured personnel have been identified as Head Constable Somveer Singh, Constable Rakesh Dass, and Constable Santosh Chandru. Singh is a resident of Madhya Pradesh, Dass hails from Assam, while Chandru is from West Bengal.One of the personnel sustained a bullet injury in the leg, another in the arm and the third in the back, according to officials.Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Bilal Mohiuddin, has visited GMC Anantnag to enquire about the injured personnel’s health and well-being.The area was cordoned off following the attack, with security forces launching a search operation to track down the assailants.On X, Congress’s Khera questioned the government’s repeated claims that the reading down of Article 370 had brought an “end to terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir”.Khera called the attack on CRPF party disturbing and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured personnel. He also expressed hope that terrorism and violence would leave the country for good.However, questioning Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s claims made in 2019, Khera said the government had presented the reading down of Article 370 as a decisive measure to end terrorism in the region.“The Home Minister, in 2019, claimed that the abrogation of Article 370 would put a decisive end to terrorism – a claim endorsed by the Prime Minister,” Khera said.“Seven years on, when a CRPF party comes under terrorist attack in an open market in Kulgam, it is clear that the changes made on 5th August 2019 have failed to achieve their stated goal,” he added.Questioning Shah’s performance, Khera asked whether the home minister had misled the country in 2019 or had failed to deliver on his assurances since then.“Either way, he is not fit to be the Home Minister of India,” Khera said.The attack comes months after a police personnel and non-local migrant workers were killed in separate incidents in south Kashmir’s Anantnag and Kulgam districts.Meanwhile, defence expert Hemant Mahajan described Wednesday’s incident as a “shoot-and-scoot attack”, suggesting that the assailants had fled immediately after opening fire. Speaking to news agency ANI, Mahajan said such attacks were intended to create an impression that normalcy had not returned to Jammu and Kashmir.