The administration has deployed additional companies of police, Army, CRPF, BSF and other paramilitary forces to reinforce the security in sensitive areas. Checkpoints have been erected on all major roads of the constituency. Recently, there were two separate attacks in this constituency in which a former Sarpanch associated with BJP was killed in Shopian and a couple from Rajasthan was injured in another attack near Pahalgam area in Anantnag.
