Amarnath Yatra: Omar Abdullah says no rise in threat

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday that there was no increased threat perception to this year’s Amarnath Yatra compared with previous years and fears of attack as reported in the media.

“While we will take all the regular precautions with a multi-layer security grid, ‘yatra attack feared’ headlines are a gross exaggeration,” Omar wrote on the microblogging site, Twitter.

The chief minister’s remark comes in the wake of several high-ranking officials, including Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, issuing statements about the Amarnath yatra being on militant radar this year.