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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security after the special bench of the Allahabad high court pronounces the Ayodhya verdict.
The meeting, which is scheduled to take place at 1730 hours, will review and articulate a strategy for further legal process.
Soon after the CCS meeting, Dr Singh is likely to make an appeal for peace and harmony. There are also plans to have a national broadcast by the prime minister if the situation so warranted.
Home Secretary G K Pillai and Intelligence Bureau Director Rajiv Mathur are in close touch with the Uttar Pradesh administration.
A special team of senior security organisations has also been deputed to Lucknow to get the copies of the judgment to be faxed to Delhi.
The Bharatiya Janata Party core group will meet at senior leader L K Advani's residence on Thursday evening following the Ayodhya title suit judgement, immediately after the arrival of party President Nitin Gadkari from Mumbai. The meeting will be attended by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and her counterpart in Upper House, Arun Jaitely among others and is expected to chalk out the future course of action on the issue after the court verdict.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat the organisation's top brass at Jhandewalan at 1830 hrs.
At North Block, Union Home Secretary GK Pillai chambers seniror IAS officers dealing with Ayodhya are at conference hall with TVs and hot line facilities directly to Lucknow and Ayodhya.