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The new Home Minister, Amit Shah took note of the internal affairs related to the law and order problem in Jammu and Kashmir. Reports said that the Union Home Minister has supported the idea of delaying holding the Assembly poll because of the volatile situation in South Kashmir where militants keep on enterig into direct encounters with the security forces Jammu Kashmir. Governor Satya Pal Malik also flew to Delhi and briefed him on the very first day in office. Reports appearing in Delhi media suggest that Shah was briefed by Director, Intelligence Bureau, Rajiv Jain and Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba. Later, he spent 15-minutes in a closed-door meeting with Satya Pal Malik.
"I had a brief discussion with the Home Minister on the law and order situation in the valley as well as on the border areas," Malik told reporters after his brief meeting was over.
The Malik-Shah meeting was mostly about the preparation being made for the annual Amarnath yatra that is going to be a 46-day affair this summer. It starts on July 1 and concludes on August 15. Since militants have the power to disturb the annual yatra all efforts are being made to upgrade the security grid. It means that the Assembly poll would be held after August 15. The Governor is reported to have said that the issue related to holding assembly elections in the State was not discussed as the matter was under the purview of the Election Commission of India.
Sources said the Home Ministry's Internal Security Department and the Jammu and Kashmir Affairs division had earlier prepared special notes to be placed before the new Home Minister.
Shah took over as Home Minister after a month-long, non-stop counter-militancy operations in Kashmir. Shah the new Union Home Minister is favouring continued military operations in Kashmir valley and on the LoC to end terror. For the first time after many years, the Muslim month of fasting witnessed scores of operations as the Lok Sabha elections were going on. More than 100 militants were killed in, what is called the "unrelenting operations" by the counter-militancy grid in the first five months of the year. Sources said Government of India's efforts are underway to have a robust and refined collaborative system in place between defence and home ministries on Kashmir. |
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