Suspected assassination plot on Sonia Gandhi foiled

Suspected assassination plot on Sonia Gandhi foiled
The CRPF late on Thursday night busted a suspected militant hideout near Bhaderwah Doda district of Jammu at least 800 metres away from the location where UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi with Home Minister Shivraj Patil would be meeting the affected people on Friday. In what looks like a murder plot on the Congress chief, the CRPF recovered 4 kg RDX, 2 grenades and many detonators from a house near Tel Mata Mandir in Kannauj. While the five militants – suspected to be a part of hardcore Islamic group Lashkar-e-Toiba managed to flee, two members of the house have been taken into custody for questioning into the matter.Sonia is scheduled to make a whirlwind tour of the areas in Jammu and Kashmir where nearly 30 people, including several army men, lost their lives to avalanches triggered by continuous heavy snowfall early this month. The Congress President with the Home Minister has arrived in Jammu. The team would then fly to Udhampur air force base where she would be received by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz and several ministers in Azad`s cabinet, senior officials said today. The Congress team is scheduled to tour Azad`s hometown and assembly constituency Bhaderwah and also meet the affected people there. She would then make an aerial survey of worst hit Kapran, Verinag and Dooru areas of Anantnag district in south Kashmir.
The officials said Sonia would interact with officers and Congress party leaders at Khanbal Dak Bungalow in Anantnag district, then briefly stop over at Srinagar and return to New Delhi today. Security beefed up The security has been beefed up, while search operations are being carried out. The Intelligence sources have said that the Congress President has always been under the terror radar. The inputs notched the threat levels higher, especially when she travelled out of the capital, which is considered as her safe zone. Meanwhile, Doda SSP Manohar Singh refused to comment on the report of recovery and termed it as rumour. “We have been camping in this region for the past three days and never heard of any such raid. Although we have heightened the security level as a list of VIPs are scheduled to arrive in the convoy”, he added.