Mumbai, Aug 26: Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has today convened a high-level meeting of top officials from police, navy, municipal corporation, fire brigade and health departments to chalk out the disaster management plan and evolve stern security measures in the wake of twin blasts in the city yesterday. The meeting would be held at Mantralaya in the afternoon, official sources told here.
Shinde has also convened a meeting of citizens' forum at Mantralaya tomorrow to infuse confidence among people that the government would tackle terrorism with a firm hand.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and Congress president Sonia Gandhi would visit the metropolis later in the day to tour the areas hit by explosions yesterday and condole the death of victims, official sources said.
Advani would visit blast hit places and hospitals where injured have been admitted, BJP sources said. He would then leave for Aurangabad to participate in the concluding session of the two-day state-level party meet.
Sonia is scheduled to visit Mumbadevi area, site of one of the explosions, Congress sources said. She is also slated to meet Shinde at his official residence `Varsha', the sources added.
Bureau Report