new Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has reached Jammu on a two-day visit to the Union Territory. According to the report of news agency ANI, he was received by Union Minister Jitendra Singh. The Home Minister along with Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha chaired a security review meeting with top officials.
Shah also handed over job appointment letters to the families of the martyred policemen at the Raj Bhavan in Jammu.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha chaired a security review meeting with senior officials at the Raj Bhavan in Jammu. pic.twitter.com/Yivr9qDFzJ
— ANI (@ANI) 18 March 2022
The Home Minister will preside over the CRPF Raising Day as the chief guest. He will participate in the 83rd Raising Day program of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Jammu on March 19.
This will be the first time that CRPF Raising Day will be celebrated outside the national capital.
Meanwhile, this is Shah’s second visit to Jammu in the last five months. Earlier he had gone to Jammu and Kashmir for five days. On March 19, 1950, the then Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel rebranded the CRPF after the enactment of the CRPF Act and the force was rechristened to its present name. The CRPF was established in 1939 as the Crown Representatives Police.
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Sources told ABP News that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also expected to visit Jammu and Kashmir for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 on the occasion of Panchayati Raj Day on April 24.
Panchayat elections were last held in Jammu and Kashmir in 2018. Recently, the killing of three sarpanchs by terrorists in J&K has re-discussed the security of panchs and sarpanches.
On March 12, Shabbir Ahmed Mir, Sarpanch of Adaura, was shot dead by terrorists in Kulgam district of South Kashmir. This is the third such murder in a month.