In another massive move, Home Minister Amit Shah said that Jammu and Kashmir will be a Union Territory with Legislature and Ladakh will be a Union Territory without Legislature.
Congress and some other political parties have begun their politics over the issue of national security by giving adjournment motions in the Parliament.
With mobile internet and landlines cut, the key administrative officials and top security officials in Jammu and Kashmir have been given satellite phones to keep in touch with the centre about the law and order situation in the state.
The central government has reportedly pressed for heavy-lift planes like the C-17s for rapid mobilisation of troops. The army and the air force have reportedly been put on high alert.