Guwahati: Monday’s recovery of a powerful IED from a passenger train ahead of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the city on November 29, have brought the security agen-cies on their toes.
Security personnel have embarked on a drive to sanitise of all the vulnerable areas as well as VIPs frequented areas in an around the state capital city as precautionary measures.
Passengers arriving at Guwahati Railway Station were in for a surprise when they were asked by the security personnel on guard to get their luggage and travel bags scanned in the newly installed luggage X-ray machine.
The metal detectors in the station have been effec-tively put into use while Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were being seen frisking through luggage of passengers on slightest suspicion. Manpower had been augmented in Guwahati Railway Station since Tuesday morning to beef up the vigil round the clock. All the trains coming and leaving the station are being subjected to thorough search by the RPF personnel armed with sniffer dogs.
The surrounding of Governor House (Raj Bhawan) in the city where the Prime Minister is slated to stay overnight during his visit to Guwahati has been thoroughly sanitized by Border Security Force (BSF)
personnel this morning. Checking of vehicles on all the roads within the city as well as in all entry and exit points to and fro the city has been augmented and made a round-the-clock affair. An intelligence input says that the anti-talks faction of the ULFA (Independent) that triggered a blast a Rajgarh town in Moran in Dibrugarh district two days back was desperate to make a big strike around the PM’s visit to Assam.
A high-level security review meeting was held in Sarusajai Football and athletic stadium in the city
today among senior police and civil officials, BJP leaders this morning to review the security ban-dobast in the venue where the Prime Minister will address BJP workers on November 30 next.