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Gill meets Advani; Punjab
offers special forces to Gujarat

With violence showing no signs of abating in Gujarat, K P S Gill, security advisor to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, met Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani in New Delhi on Tuesday.

In a related development, Punjab offered its elite forces, raised by Gill in the eighties, to assist the authorities in Gujarat.

Though Gill refused to disclose what transpired at his half-an-hour meeting with Advani, it is understood the two discussed ways to contain the situation in Ahmedabad and other disturbed areas.

Punjab has offered a unit of India Reserve Battalion, which has expertise in carrying out operations in disturbed areas, to the Gujarat government.

Sources said the offer came after Gill contacted Punjab Home Secretary S K Sinha on Monday and discussed with him the possibility of deploying the state's special forces in Gujarat.

When contacted, Sinha said the Punjab police had agreed to spare one battalion of IRB. However, he added: "No decision has yet been taken to send the battalion [to Gujarat] as a formal request is yet to come from the Union Home Ministry."

PTI

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