Srinagar has been put under a massive security blanket for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's poll rally this afternoon.

The PM will address the first-ever BJP poll rally in Srinagar at Sheri-Kashmir Indoor stadium.

Apart from deployment of hundreds of police and paramilitary troops in and around the rally venue, all roads leading to the stadium have been barricaded and no vehicular movement is being allowed in a radius of around 2 km.

The Prime Minister is scheduled to arrive in Srinagar in the afternoon after having addressing a poll rally in Samba, Jammu.

Before addressing the poll rally, the PM is scheduled to visit the adjacent Badami Bagh cantonment, the headquarters of the army's 15 Corps to pay homage to the army martyrs who laid down their lives fighting the terror attack at Mahura in north Kashmir's Baramulla district last week.

Eight army soldiers including a Lt Col and three policemen were killed in the militant attack on a camp of the army.

The BJP issued advertisements in all the local newspapers today inviting people to the Modi rally. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has called for a shutdown to protest the visit.