Home Minister Rajnath Singh today told the armed forces in Jammu and Kashmir of more reinforcements in days to come.
Addressing the media in Jammu, he said that Pakistan has been resorting to heavy shelling at the border. Taking cognisance of repeated shelling, he assured to deploy 9 new battalions which will take stock on ground. Out of these 9 new battalions, 2 would be deployed in sensitive areas.
Singh visited the district of Kupwara and interacted with the locals living near border areas, officials said. Singh was accompanied by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh, they said.
Singh on Thursday while urging the Resistance Leaders to hold talks for peace, said that for successful talks it is not necessary to speak to ‘like-minded people but right minded people’.
Earlier, before his arrival, the government spokesperson Naeem Akhtar had said that Singh’s is not just a usual visit but part of a ‘bigger exercise which started with the announcement of the Ramzan ceasefire announced by the Modi government.
While addressing youth in the Indoor Stadium along with Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Singh said that cases against ‘children who were misled into stone pelting’, will be withdrawn as the Government of India is ‘concerned about the youth of JK’.
