Rajnath to chair first CMs’ meeting on India-China border issues

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will chair a first security review meeting on May 20 with Chief Ministers of five Himalayan states on the India-China border during his three-day visit to Sikkim, an official said.

Mehbooba Mufti, Virbhadra Singh, Trivendra Singh Rawat, Pawan Kumar Chamling, and Pema Khandu, who are Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh respectively will attend.

“The meeting organised by the Home Ministry will be held on Saturday in Gangtok,” a Ministry official said. The Home Minister will leave Delhi for the Sikkim visit on Friday. The objective is to strengthen coordination of the Ministry with these five states so as to improve overall border security, he said.

The official said that border infrastructure work undertaken by the Home Ministry, border area development programme and coordination issues between the states and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will also be discussed in the meeting.