Mobile internet services in the Kashmir were today snapped owing to the visit of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi scheduled poll rally in the state’s summer capital Srinagar.
All the mobile internet connections stopped amid unprecedented security and an undeclared curfew in many parts of the city.
Although, no reason has been given for snapping the services, it is believed that the step was taken as a preemptive measure.
In the past, authorities have suspended internet and mobile services during the 2010 civil protests in the Valley as some people used the internet to mobilise protests.
These services are suspended on every Indian Republic day and Independence Day as a precautionary measure as well.
Authorities Monday deployed more than 4,000 government forces to secure the venue of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public rally in Srinagar.
“We are taking no chances with security on the prime minister’s visit to Srinagar today especially in the wake of last Friday’s militant attacks in the Valley,” a top official of the state’s security grid said here.
