Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that “the time of injustice to the people of Jammu is over, now no one can do injustice to you”. While addressing an event after the inauguration ceremony on IIT Jammu, the Union Home Minister said, “I came to Jammu today to say that time of injustice to the people of Jammu is over. Now no one can do injustice to you. Some are trying to disrupt the era of development here, but want to assure you that no one will be able to disturb the era of development.”
On the second day of his three-day first visit to Jammu and Kashmir post the abrogation of Article 370, the Union Minister visited forward areas at the Makwal border in the Jammu region. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha accompanied him to the forward areas at Makwal. Shah interacted with jawans and local residents during his visit. On Saturday, he had met the families of the soldiers and civilians who had been killed by terrorist in this month.
Earlier in the day, Shah inaugurated two phases of a multi-disciplinary research centre and laid the foundation stone of the third phase of the centre at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jammu. Shah also remembered Prem Nath Dogra on his birth anniversary. “Today is the birth anniversary of Prem Nath Dogra. People of India can’t forget him. He along with Shyama Prasad Mukherjee gave the slogan that in a country two Vidhan, two Nishan, two Pradhan will not work,” he added.
On Monday, the Union Minister will visit the Kashmir valley and inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of various development projects in Srinagar.