Confirmed schedule of HM’s visit to Jammu awaited: BJP

Jammu, Apr 7: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is among the Bharatiya Janata Party’s star campaigners scheduled to visit J&K to seek support for party candidates in the ensuing parliamentary polls, will not visit Jammu on April 9.

Reports quoting anonymous party sources suggested that given his busy schedule, Home Minister’s April 9 visit was postponed and would be rescheduled.

Notwithstanding earlier media reports about the Union Home Minister’s likely visit to address a rally in Jammu on April 9, J&K BJP’s chief spokesperson Sunil Sethi, while speaking to Greater Kashmir, had even earlier asserted that the party had not received official communication confirming the date and venue of his visit so far.

“Union Home Minister will be available for campaigning in J&K. But we don’t have a confirmed date and venue so far. I’ll confirm when I get an official communication. In any case, that is a long-drawn security drill. Security concerns are intrinsic to their visits. So details are not revealed to everybody very soon,” Sethi had stated.

Meanwhile, reports, again quoting anonymous party sources, said that the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would address an election rally in Basohli on April 15 in favour of the party candidate from Udhampur seat Dr Jitendra Singh.