Union Ministers'' Flight To Jammu Diverted Due To Bad Weather

The flight carrying three union ministers Arjun Ram Meghwal, Ashwini Choubey and Dr Jitendra Singh was on Saturday diverted to Srinagar due to bad weather. It is not clear whether the much-anticipated visit of the Union Council of Ministers to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir that was, to begin with, the Jammu-leg on Saturday will take off on the day or not. Scheduled for January 18 to 24, the visit by 38 ministers to the newly formed UT was aimed at spreading words about the government”s policies, particularly those taken in the last five months after the abrogation of Article 370.

According to government sources, there will be 51 visits to Jammu and eight to Srinagar. Meghwal was scheduled to visit Samba”s Puramandal area, Choubey Samba”s Chajjwal and Singh Jammu city. They were to hold meet work On Sunday, Smriti Irani will visit Katra and Panthal areas in Reasi district while her cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal will be in Jammu”s Akhnoor region, Mahendra Nath Pandey in Jammu”s Dansal, Meghwal in Kathua”s Basholi and V. Muraleedharan in Kathua”s Bilawal. On January 20, Union Minister General V.K. Singh (retired) will visit Udhampur”s Tikri region while Pratap Sarangi will be Kathua”s Ramkoat region and R.K. Singh in Doda”s Ghat region. On the same day, Debashree Choudary will be in March region in Jammu.