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In the wake of multiple blasts in Patna, the Centre today asked the States to maintain high alert and tighten security during the festival season.
The Home Ministry has also asked the five poll-bound States to beef up security in election rallies, especially those being attended by top leaders.
In an advisory sent a day after the serial blasts in Patna, the Home Ministry asked the States and Union Territories to keep a strict vigil on sensitive places, markets, religious sites, railway stations, bus terminus and other vital installations, besides deploying adequate forces for their security.
Sources said that the States and UTs were asked to take all precautions to foil any attempt by terrorists to indulge in subversive activities, especially in places where there is a large gathering of people.
The Ministry has also asked the authorities in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Mizoram to tighten the security in political rallies as there may be attempts to target such gatherings by terrorists, they said.
Six persons were killed in the seven low intensity serial blasts, of which six bombs went off in and around the venue of Modi’s mega rally at Gandhi Maidan shortly before his address before a huge gathering yesterday.
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