New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday that all countries will have to come up with a single definition of terrorism, as there could not be good terrorism or bad terrorism.
Speaking on “Security Beyond Tomorrow: Forging India’s Resilient Future” at an event organised by ORF, Shah said, “We have asked other nations to define a single definition of terrorism, as there could not be good terrorism or bad terrorism,” reported PTI.
Shah also launched the ORF Foreign Policy Survey.
Shah stated that the Modi government has successfully tackled the three internal security hotspots — ‘Jammu and Kashmir, the Northeast and the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas’ — in its 10 years of rule, as per the PTI report.
“Jammu and Kashmir, Left Wing Extremism and North East were the three main hotspots of terrorism in the country. The Narendra Modi government has made a major crackdown on these three identified hotspots of terrorism in the country. And we have successfully achieved it,” the home minister said.
Shah asserted that the government wants friendly relations with all countries but it will not compromise with India’s border security and the safety of its people.
“Our external and internal policy is clear. We want friendly relations with other countries. But there will be no compromise on the country’s border security and the security of its people,” he said.
Shah said other countries have respected this policy of the government.
He claimed that the previous governments have created many internal security problems due to their appeasement policy. According to Shah, the three internal security hotspots of the country had come up due to the wrong policies of the previous government.
“These three hotspots were successfully brought under control by the Modi government and the areas were now part of India’s development journey,” he added.
Home Minister Shah emphasized that terrorism and insurgency have caused significant loss of life and injury, prompting the government to address not only terrorism but also its ecosystem.
Giving an example, the home minister said there were over 2,600 organised stone pelting incidents in Jammu and Kashmir prior to the Modi government came to power and over 110 people lost their lives and more than 6,000 people were injured due to these incidents.
“Now there is not a single incident of stone pelting in Jammu and Kashmir. There is zero stone pelting,” he said.
Shah said that the newly enacted three criminal justice laws will replace 160-year-old laws and guarantee all due Constitutional rights to every citizen. He further claimed that after the implementation of the three legislations, these will be the most modern laws, reported PTI.