Amit Shah to lay foundation stone of development projects in Srinagar today

INTERNATIONAL DESK: India’s Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development projects in Srinagar on Monday.

The Home Minister is at the end of his three-day visit to the union territory, his first since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019.

Shah visits Mata Kheer Bhawani temple in KashmirAmit Shah visits Mata Kheer Bhawani temple in KashmirShah paid obeisance at the Mata Kheer Bhawani temple shrine in J&K’s Ganderbal district on Monday. Extraordinary security arrangements were made in and around the Mata Kheer Bhawani temple in Tullamulla town.

Heavy deployment of police and paramilitary forces was made in Ganderbal town where the home minister landed in a helicopter and was then driven to the nearly 5-kilometre long distance to the temple shrine accompanied by Lt Governor Manoj Sinha.

Mata Kheer Bhawani temple shrine is the holiest religious place of worship for the Kashmiri Pandit community.

On Saturday, he met the families of soldiers and civilians killed this month in a spate of terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.

Stating that Jammu and Kashmir is in the heart of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that a new era of development has started in the Union Territory and nobody can stop this development.

“Nobody can stop the era of development that has started in J-K. It is the land of temples, of Mata Vaishno Devi, of Prem Nath Dogra, the land of sacrifices of Syama Prasad Mukherjee. We would not let the people, who are trying to disrupt peace in J-K succeed,” Shah said while addressing an event in Jammu.(ANI)