New Delhi: The Centre has asked Jammu and Kashmir Government to take strictest possible steps against those involved in anti-national actions during a rally by hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani yesterday on the outskirts of Srinagar.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed last night and made it clear that the issue of national security cannot be compromised. The Chief Minister briefed Singh about what happened at the rally and the situation there, official sources said. Singh told Sayeed that "any step which can be termed as anti-national cannot be tolerated," they said.