PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will attend the national conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police, to be held here from December 6 to 8. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will receive the Prime Minister upon his arrival at Pune airport on Friday evening, a State Government official said. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is also likely to attend the conference, a senior police official said here. Incidentally, Thackeray would be meeting Modi for the first time after the Shiv Sena chief, a former BJP ally, was sworn in as Chief Minister. The three-day meet will see top officials from the police forces of States, central investigative and Intelligence agencies and Central Armed Police Forces coming together and discussing internal security-related issues.

 

It will take place on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pashan area of the city. “The Ministry of Home Affairs organises the conference every year. Earlier it was organised in Delhi, but after Modi became Prime Minister, it is being held in different cities every year,” the senior police official said. Last year the conference was held at Kevadia in Gujarat, near the Statue of Unity.

 

PM to address Delhi unauthorised colony residents on Dec 22: PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will address residents of unauthorised colonies at a mega “thanksgiving” rally to be hosted by the Delhi BJP at the Ramlila Ground on December 22. Confirming Modi’s participation at the rally, Delhi BJP General Secretary Rajesh Bhatia said that plans were afoot to ensure presence of over 10 lakh residents of unauthorised colonies in the “Dhanyawad Rally”. “We will also run a signature campaign as a gesture of gratitude towards the prime minister, with people living in these colonies thanking him for providing them legal ownership right over there properties,” Bhatia said.