Security has been tightened for Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir beginning Monday evening, officials said. Shah is scheduled to address two rallies – one in Jammu region’s Rajouri district on Tuesday and the other in north Kashmir’s Baramulla on Wednesday.
There have been two major terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in the last one week. Officials said on Monday that multi-layered security arrangements have been made for the visit of the Union Home Minister and drones are also being used for aerial surveillance.
He said the investigation has been intensified on the Jammu-Poonch and Srinagar-Baramulla highways, while additional police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed to keep a close watch on the situation.
“As part of security measures, police and CRPF personnel have been deployed at various places in Srinagar as well as in the Valley,” an official said.
Patrolling has been intensified at several places on the Srinagar-Baramulla-Kupwara highway, the official said.
“Drones equipped with high-resolution cameras are monitoring multiple locations and assisting the security forces in maintaining surveillance,” the official said.
Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh, who visited both the places last week, said attempts are being made by terrorists and their handlers to disturb peace in Jammu and Kashmir, but all necessary security arrangements have been made for the high-profile visit and “… VIP travel or any such activity which sends a positive message to the people, terrorists and their handlers across the border try to show that all is not well (on the security front),” the police chief said on Sunday. Said here.
Militants on Sunday attacked a team of security forces in the Union Territory’s Pulwama district, killing a Special Police Officer (SPO) and injuring a CRPF jawan. on the intervening night of 28 and 29 September, injuring two more persons.
In addition, a former terrorist was arrested and five improvised explosive devices including three sticky bombs were confiscated. However, the DGP said that bigger things are improving with each passing day and he has tried to attack the terror ecosystem on various fronts, as a result of which the security scenario today is much better than it was four years ago.
“There has been a drastic change in the overall security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, which has arisen on the basis of facts and figures and not on the basis of mere claims… A very large number of successful operations have been conducted,” he said. said.
Additional Director General of Police, Jammu Zone, Mukesh Singh visited Rajouri this morning and reviewed the security arrangements at a high-level meeting on the eve of the Home Minister’s rally, officials said.
Security has also been beefed up in Jammu and the holy city of Katra, which is the base camp for pilgrims visiting the Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Reasi district, officials said.
Officials said Shah is scheduled to visit the temple and offer prayers on Tuesday, the last day of the Navratri festival.
He said the Home Minister is likely to meet some senior BJP leaders besides several delegations including Gurjars and Bakarwals soon after his arrival here.
He will also inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development works in the Jammu region after his return from Rajouri.
The Home Minister is scheduled to leave for Kashmir on Tuesday evening and will address a public meeting in Baramulla on Wednesday.
BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir president Ravinder Raina said Shah’s rallies would be “historic”. “It will be the biggest rallies in the history of Rajouri-Poonch and North Kashmir,” he said.
Asked whether Shah would make any announcement regarding the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Raina said it is the party’s prerogative to decide the election schedule. Election India Commission, but BJP was ready for election.
“Elections will be held… It is the election commission’s job (to announce the election schedule). But BJP is ready for elections,” he said.
Shah will also inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for several development works in Srinagar, besides chairing a high-level security review meeting with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday.
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