New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) today. This comes a day after a high-level meeting was convened by the Prime Minister at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday, a week after 26 people – mostly tourists – were killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.
PM Narendra Modi, in the meeting on Tuesday, granted the Indian Armed Forces “complete operational freedom” to respond to the recent terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, government sources told one of media houses. The CCPA has convened during critical moments. One such meeting was held in February 2019 following the Pulwama terror attack, where the security situation was reviewed and strategies to counter terrorism were discussed.
The current members of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who serves as the chairperson, along with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal. In the first CCS meeting, which was held a day after the Pahalgam terror attack, India adopted a series of sweeping diplomatic and strategic countermeasures against Pakistan.
