Amit Shah to visit Jammu, Poonch on May 29, 30

JAMMU: Union home minister Amit Shah is likely to visit Jammu and the border district of Poonch on May 29 and 30. This would be his first visit to the Union Territory of J&K following Operation Sindoor.

Shah is expected to hold a security review meeting in Jammu on May 29, official sources said. The next day, he is expected to visit Poonch — the district worst-affected in the recent Indo-Pak military escalations — and meet the families who lost members and houses in cross-border shelling by Pakistan.

Shah’s last visit to J&K was on April 23, a day after the Pahalgam terror strike in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were gunned down by terrorists. The home minister had visited the spot of the massacre in Baisaran Valley, accompanied by J&K CM Omar Abdullah and lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha. Shah also went to a govt hospital in south Kashmir’s Anantnag to inquire about the condition of those injured in the attack, and later paid tributes to the victims at a wreath-laying ceremony in Srinagar.