Chidambaram Reviews J&K Security
While advising leaders to exercise caution during the elections, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday and reiterated that security forces in Jammu and Kashmir would be taking no chances, the senior Congress leader was addressing the media in Jammu.
He said that the state police have submitted its requirements and he would look into the matter as soon as he was back in the national capital.
Chidambaram noted that 6000 positions in the state police were yet to be filled and said that almost all vacancies would be filled by the end of the current year and added that the remaining positions would be filled by the end of 2010.
Conducting a review of security in the state, the minister said that the ongoing political turmoil in Pakistan was “not giving us comfort” and added that prudence demanded that the security apparatus remained on high alert in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier in the day, Chidambaram held a two hour meeting with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
He also lauded the exemplary co-ordination between the army, para-military troops and the state police while.
Speaking of the Bomai killings in the Sopore area, the minister said that the matter was being probed by both, the civil administration and the army and added that he along with the Defence Minister and the Chief Minister would look into the reports after the investigation was completed.
