PM Narendra Modi reached Jammu on Friday for a whistle stop visit to attend the centenary celebrations of former Congress stalwart and Union finance minister Arun Jaitley’s father in law, the late Girdhari Lal Dogra. The visit was also seen as a strong signal from the government after indiscriminate shelling and firing by Pakistan Rangers killed a woman, two soldiers and two villagers along the border. He went through a photo exhibition on the life of Dogra, who was Jammu and Kashmir’s finance minister for a record 27 years, at Zorawar Singh auditorium of Jammu University. Speaking during the centenary celebrations, Modi said "there is never a question of political untouchability. Everyone who has worked for the nation is to be respected." “I’m very sure that Girdhari Lalji’s judgement of character was very sharp, it shows in his choice of son-in-law,” the Prime Minister said. “There was no similarity in the political line of thought of Dograsahab and Arun Jaitleyji and neither are known due to each other.”
