Jammu: Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived here on Friday evening on a two-day visit to review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir and reach out to shelling-hit affected people in Poonch, officials said.
Upon arrival, Shah was received by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and other senior officials at the technical airport in Jammu and proceeded to Raj Bhawan, Jammu, where he chaired a high-level security review meeting.
“Top officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Indian Army, Jammu and Kashmir Police, Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Intelligence Bureau (IB), and civil administration participated in the meeting,” official sources said.
They said that the main focus of the meeting was the security of Amarnath Yatra, counter terrorism measures, Operation Sindoor and strengthening of the anti-infiltration grid.
This is Shah’s first visit to the Union Territory post Operation Sindoor.
Shah, during his stay in the Jammu region, will meet shelling-hit people and the BSF personnel in the region, sources said.
After a night stay in Jammu, Shah will fly to Poonch and interact with shelling-hit families during his visit to Poonch on Friday.
He will also visit damaged religious places, including the Singh Sabha Gurdwara and hold a meeting with officers to assess the damage in the worst-hit district, officials said.
The minister will also visit the Border Security Force (BSF) camp in Poonch and interact with the jawans.
He will address the civilians affected by Pakistani shelling at Dak Bungalow in Poonch and the BSF soldiers at their Unit Headquarters at Khanetar.
Shah is likely to distribute appointment letters among the next of kin of civilians killed in the shelling, they said.
This will be the Home minister’s third visit to Jammu and Kashmir since April 6 and first after the Indian armed forces struck terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in the early hours of May 7 in retaliation to the Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 people, mostly tourists, dead.
After conducting a three-day tour on April 6, Shah again visited Kashmir on April 23, a day after the Pahalgam attack.
