Prime Minister Narendra Modi is prone to go to Jammu and Kashmir on April 24, sources have stated, his first for the reason that erstwhile state was stripped of its particular standing in August, 2019 and bifurcated into two Union Territories.
Sources informed The Indian Express PM Modi is prone to meet and tackle Panchayat representatives in Jammu. “A detailed itinerary and his programs are still in the works, but the PM will likely be in Jammu on April 24,” a central authorities official stated.
April 24 marks the Panchayati Raj Diwas, the day when the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 got here into power in 1993. J&Okay Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha had met Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh, who additionally holds the Panchayati Raj cost, final week.
Modi’s go to comes at a time when the Delimitation Commission on Jammu and Kashmir is about to finish its work, with election within the newly shaped UT anticipated within the latter a part of this 12 months or early subsequent 12 months.
Last 12 months, in a transfer that was seen as extending of an olive department, Modi had invited mainstream leaders from the UT, a lot of whom had been detained after the Article 370 abrogation, to his residence in Delhi and held an extended assembly with them.
Apart from promising to carry elections quickly, the PM had informed the leaders of J&K’s statehood can be restored after the state of affairs returns to regular.
Modi’s go to additionally comes amid a surge in assaults on civilians, a lot of them non-locals, within the Kashmir Valley.
On Monday, a Pandit shopkeeper was wounded after suspected militants shot at him in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
