Modi meets armed forces'' chiefs to discuss India’s ‘response’

New Delhi, September 24

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met the Army, Navy and Air Force Chiefs of Staff to discuss the prevailing security condition.

Apart from Chief of Army Staff General Dalbir Singh Suhag, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba and Air Chief Marshall Arup Raha, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval was also present for the meeting at the Prime Minister’s residence at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg here.

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Besides discussing the prevailing security situation, discussion was also held on India’s response to the Uri attack, for which New Delhi has held Islamabad responsible.

Later in the day, the Prime Minister will fly to Kerala, where he will address party office-bearers in Kozhikode and is expected to break his silence on the government’s response to the terror attack on the Army base.

Immediately after the Uri attack, the Prime Minister had vowed in a strongly worded tweet that he would not let the perpetrators go “unpunished”.

Earlier, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had asserted that the Prime Minister’s promise to punish those behind the Uri terror attack would not remain just words.

Last Sunday, a militant attack on an army base in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, had claimed the lives of 18 soldiers.

The armed militants lobbed grenades into their tents and barracks, while the soldiers were sleeping. The ensuing fire led to a large number of casualties. Twenty-eight injured soldiers are being treated at a military hospital. ANI