AGARTALA, February 13 (TIWN): As part of taking up necessary precautionary measures ahead of the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh maiden visit (as Home Minister) to the state tomorrow, security has been tighten up in Tripura. Home Minister Rajnath is scheduled to hold a series of meetings on his visit to Tripura. He is also scheduled to visit Kanchanpur to talk with the Reang refugees. He will meet Chief Minister Manik Sarkar during his visit.

Security arrangements have been made to thwart any untoward incident here in the state in wake of Union Home Minister Rajnath Sing’s two day maiden visit. According to the top official of the state police, the security forces comprising of the state police, TSR, CRPF and others has been deployed across the state especially in the areas, where HM Rajnath is scheduled to visit.

The security forces has already started search in operation everywhere, said the official.

Besides, the security forces are keeping a strict vigil along Tripura’s border with the neighbouring country Bangladesh ahead of Rajnath’s visit here in Tripura on February 14, an official said here today. The BSF (Border Security Force) and Assam Rifles have been asked to maintain maximum alert along the bordering areas.

India is erecting a fence and putting up floodlights along the 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram to check trans-border movement of militants, and keep a check on border crimes.

Singh, accompanied by minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju and top officials of the ministry of home affairs (MHA), will come to Agartala on Saturday morning by a special BSF aircraft from Imphal. However, later in the evening after he concludes with a series of meeting the officials here in Tripura, he will leave for New Delhi by a BSF aircraft. This is for the first time in the last 18 years that a Union home minister is holding a meeting on repatriation with the chief ministers of both Tripura and Mizoram.