JK Police chief, BSF ADG review security along Indo-Pak border post-Jammu floods
Jammu (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir DGP Nalin Prabhat and BSF ADG, Western Command, S S Khandare separately reviewed the security along the India-Pakistan border post-flash floods in the Jammu region, officials said.
The visit of the two officers to the International Border (IB) in Kathua and Jammu districts comes a day before the likely visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to the region to take stock of the situation in the aftermath of record rainfall earlier this week, which triggered floods in low-lying areas and left behind a trail of death and destruction.
Official sources said the flooding has caused extensive damage to the border grid, including fencing and the border outposts along the IB and the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts.
The security forces are maintaining the highest vigil to foil any attempt by terrorists to take advantage of the situation to sneak into Indian territory, they said.
Director General of Police (DGP) Prabhat, along with Deputy Inspector General of Police, Jammu-Samba-Kathua Range, Shiv Kumar Sharma, and Senior Superintendent of Police Shobhit Saxena, visited the forward areas of Kathua and was briefed by BSF officers on the damage to the infrastructure due to the floods.
The DGP lauded the BSF for its relief efforts in the flood-hit border villages, the officials said.
Additional Director General, BSF, Western Command, Khandare visited forward posts in R S Pura sector and reviewed the damage caused by the floods, the officials said.
Khandare was accompanied by BSF Inspector General, Jammu frontier, Shashank Anand and DIG Chitar Pal. The two officers briefed the ADG about the situation on the ground and BSF rescue missions in the border areas.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
