Pahalgam terror attack: Prime Minister Modi chairs crucial CCPA meet – Star of Mysore

Centre revamps Nationwide Safety Advisory Board 

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning chaired a crucial assembly of the Cupboard Committee on Political Affairs — usually dubbed the “Tremendous Cupboard” — within the wake of final week’s terror assault on vacationers in Pahalgam, Kashmir.

The result of the CCPA assembly can be identified at a press convention later right now. The Prime Minister has to this point chaired a sequence of excessive-degree conferences, together with the Cupboard Committee on Safety (CCS), Cupboard Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), and Cupboard Committee on Financial Affairs (CCEA). These again-to-again classes targeted on crucial points starting from nationwide safety to financial technique and political developments.

At the moment’s CCPA assembly follows a excessive-degree CCS session, the second because the Pahalgam bloodbath. Within the aftermath of the primary CCS assembly, the Authorities introduced a sequence of non-army measures in opposition to Pakistan, together with freezing the Indus Waters Treaty, shutting down the Attari border and cancelling every kind of visas.

On Tuesday night, PM Modi additionally met with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval and Chief of Defence Employees Common Anil Chauhan. Throughout this assembly, sources say the Prime Minister gave the armed forces “full freedom to determine the mode, targets and timing” of India’s army response.

In opposition to this backdrop, right now’s CCPA assembly has drawn vital consideration and hypothesis. The committee final met in 2019 following the Pulwama terror assault, the place it accepted the withdrawal of the Most Favoured Nation standing to Pakistan. That assembly set the stage for the Balakot airstrike by the Indian Air Pressure on February 26, 2019.

The Cupboard Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) is liable for reviewing and deciding on crucial political and financial points. It performs a pivotal function in Centre-State relations, serving to forge consensus when required.

The Committee additionally addresses issues of inside safety with political implications, coordinates between Ministries on main coverage issues and discusses international coverage points with potential political fallout.

CCPA members: The CCPA is chaired by the Prime Minister and contains: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Residence Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Highway Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Well being Minister JP Nadda, Civil Aviation Minister Okay. Ram Mohan Naidu, MSME Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, Transport Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Atmosphere Minister Bhupender Yadav, Girls and Baby Growth Minister Annapurna Devi, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju and Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy. Cupboard Ministers from allied events even have illustration within the Committee.