srinager’25’oct 2021-Union Home Minister Amit Shah today paid his obeisance to Goddess Ragyna at Kheer Bhawani temple in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on the last day of his three-day visit to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. He was accompanied by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
Earlier, while addressing a public rally at Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu, he said that a new era of development has started in the Jammu and Kashmir and nobody can stop this development in the Union Territory.
He also visited the forward areas at the Makwal border in Jammu with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and interacted with Jawans and local residents there. He also met the delegations of Kashmiri Pandits, Gujjar-Bakarwal community and Pahari community there.
Later in the day, Mr Shah is also scheduled to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of Government Medical College (GMC) at Handwara besides various development projects in Srinagar.
The Union Home Minister is on a three-day visit to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 on 5th August 2019 when the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union Territories of Ladakh and J&K.
The visit of Home Minister to the Union Territory has come amid several incidents of civilian killings by terrorists in Kashmir which is sparking fear among non-local labourers, residents and tourists visiting the valley from various parts of the country.