Union Home Minister Amit Shah is leaving for a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir on Friday during which he will attend various development programmes in Jammu and Srinagar. Shah will begin his tour of the Union Territory by laying wreaths on the statue of BJP ideologue and Bhartiya Jana Sangha founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Jammu on Friday morning, sources said. Shah will lay the foundation stone of the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL) at Samba. He will also inaugurate and lay foundation stones of various development schemes in the city, they said.
Following these events, he will travel to Srinagar where he will attend a function at Raj Bhavan for the inauguration and laying foundation stones of various development projects, they further said. Later, he will attend the ‘Vitasta’ festival organised by the Union Culture Ministry in the city.
On Saturday, Shah will lay the foundation stone of the ‘Validan Stambh’ in Srinagar before returning to the national capital. The Home Minister is likely to meet many delegations of political and civil society including those from the Gujjar, Bakerwals and Pahari community. The minister is likely to review the preparations for the upcoming annual Amarnath Yatra and may visit Baltal base camp to see the arrangements for the pilgrims. The security grid is already on alert mode in view of the upcoming pilgrimage and all the security agencies deployed in the Valley are maintaining a strict vigil on vulnerable points and highways.