Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to woo Kashmiri voters; security tightened in Srinagar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday headed to Kashmir to address a rally in the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium.

Tension has risen in the valley after 11 soldiers and police were killed in an attack on an Indian army camp, prompting a call for Pakistan to do more to stop militants from crossing the militarised border.

Storming an army camp, two days ahead of the Prime Minister's visit to the vally, militants on Friday in Uri in Baramulla district killied 13 civilians, 6 soldiers and 3 cops including a Lt Col.

Srinagar has been put under a tight security cover as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to arrive today in the city to address a rally in the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium. About 3,000 paramilitary troops, accompanied by sniffer dogs, stood guard around a stadium.

"The security grid is in place," an army official, Lieutenant-General Subrata Saha, told reporters. "It won't be appropriate for me to say anything more than that."

The arrangements have especially been made amidst assertions by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the purpose of the recent militant attacks in the state was to create terror among the masses.

The third phase of Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls will take place tomorrow.

Seventy-two percent voter turnout was registered in the second phase of the assembly elections in the valley on Tuesday.

The result of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be announced on December 23.

(With agency inputs)