Jammu, Jan 20 (IANS): A day after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi, the state government announced on Thursday that it would not allow any ''programme which has the potential of vitiating the peaceful atmosphere in the state''.

An official statement, without specifically referring to Bharatiya Janata Party’s "Rashtriya Ekta Yatra" or national unity march aimed at hoisting the tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day Jan 26, said: “The state government has directed the civil and police authorities to ensure that all measures are taken to ensure that the law and order in the state is not disturbed in the run up to the Republic Day celebrations.”

This announcement was made after a high level meeting chaired by Abdullah in Jammu, the winter capital of the state.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday ahead of Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) planned march to unfurl the tricolour in Srinagar on Republic Day that has caused a major worry for the state.

"The two leaders discussed various issues pertaining to the economic and political developments in the state. They also discussed the general situation in Jammu and Kashmir and challenges ahead on various other fronts," an official statement said in Jammu.

Abdullah was in the capital to meet Home Minister P. Chidambaram amid the state government's fears that the BJP's planned march may cause law and order problem in the state in the midst of prevailing peace following months of deadly street protests in the Kashmir Valley last summer in which 112 people were killed, mostly in firing by paramilitary forces and the state police.