Srinagar, Publish Date: Mar 30 2018
Several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists in Kashmir will be provided security in near future, the police said.
Additional director general of police (security) Muneer Ahmad Khan told said security would be provided to local BJP leaders and activists on the basis of threat perception management underway.
About a week after an attack on their party activist in Balhama area of Srinagar, BJP had demanded security cover for 31 “leaders” in Kashmir.
Details about these 31 persons, including eight top and 25 middle-rung leaders, all of them Kashmiris, had been provided to the police by the party.
Senior leader and industries minister Chander Prakash Ganga is handling the security issue of party leaders from Kashmir.
On 15 March, a personal security officer of a BJP activist was injured when suspected militants fired at him on Srinagar outskirts, which the police later described as a “failed attempt” to snatch his official weapon.
A day later, national general secretary and party’s point man on Jammu and Kashmir Ram Madhav met the party activist here, who had escaped unhurt in the attack.
But the attack had rattled the local BJP activists, who had told the party top brass that they were finding it diffcult to move around.
BJP general secretary (organisation) Ashok Koul, soon after the attack, had said security was one of the challenges the party cadres were facing in Kashmir.
“We expect that our security needs are met at the earliest,” he had said.
