PM Narendra Modi will hand over 51,000 appointment letters to recruits in central armed police forces, and Amit Shah in Gandhinagar to chair a meeting of the Western Zonal Council.
The Haryana government has stepped up security arrangements in Nuh after the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) said it would resume the Braj Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra, during which communal violence began on July 31, today.Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has appealed to devotees to offer prayers at local temples on the last Monday of the holy month of Shravan instead of going to other places in the state. He said on Sunday that permission for the proposed yatra had been declined as a precautionary step keeping in view the violence that occurred about a month ago, leaving six people dead.According to a police spokesperson in Nuh, 1,900 Haryana Police personnel and 24 companies of paramilitary forces have been deployed. No outsider will be allowed to enter Nuh. All entry points to the district have been sealed and the road leading to the local Malhar temple has also been closed.VHP members have said the yatra will begin from Nuh’s Nalhar Mahadev Mandir at 11 am, before moving to Ferozepur Jhirka’s Jhir Mandir and later to Singar Mandir in Punhana and conclude by 4 pm. According to members of the VHP’s youth wing, Bajrang Dal, which is organising the event under the banner of Sarva Hindu Samaj, they are taking “all precautions”. The authorities have already ordered the precautionary closure of educational institutions and banks, suspended mobile internet and bulk SMS services, and imposed prohibitory orders in the district.A Supreme Court Bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose, Sanjay Kumar, and S V N Bhatti is scheduled to hear a plea filed against the demolition drive by the Agra Railways authorities to clear allegedly illegal constructions on railway land near the Krishna Janmabhoomi in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura. Over a hundred houses were bulldozed before the court stayed the demolition drive in its order on August 16.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin the week by distributing over 51,000 appointment letters to recruits in central armed police forces (CAPFs). The PM will address them via video conferencing at 10.30 am. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has organised the Rozgar Melas at 45 locations across India to recruit personnel for various CAPFs such as the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Shashtra Seema Bal (SSB), Assam Rifles, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
