Bihar on high alert after LoC strike

Entire Bihar was out on high alert on Thursday noon following reports of successful attack on terror camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) by Indian forces in the wee hours. Security checks at airports at Gaya and Patna and all railway stations have been tightened.

The Shastra Seema Bal (SSB) posted on the IndoNepal border also intensified patrolling on the borders on Nepal and Bangladesh.

Union agriculture and farmers welfare minister Radhamohan Singh, while welcoming the attack on terrorists camps in PoK said Prime Minister has fulfilled his commitment and proved he has 56 inches chest.

Kiran Kumari, widow of one of the martyred jawans, Naik S K Vidyarthi of Boknar village in Gaya district welcomed the attack on Pakistani ‘terror’ camps. She said Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserved praise for the surgical strike. This should have been done earlier she said, adding that the action was a tribute to the jawans killed at Uri. She said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised martyrdom of jawans would not go in vain, and he acted on his promise.

Bihar had faced terror attacks and explosions at Bodh Gaya and Patna’s Gandhi Maidan in 2014. Narendra Modi, then PM candidate of BJP had nearly escaped serial explosions at Gandhi Maidan at an election meeting in which over a dozen BJP workers were killed.

Union home minister Rajnath Singh had informed senior leaders of opposition before the surgical strike. He called on the JDU parliamentary party leader and MP from Bihar Sharad Yadav at his (Yadav) residence on Wednesday evening and took him into confidence about the action plan, according to sources. He spoke to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav also about the strike plan.