Union Home Minister Amit Shah | File Photo
Srinagar- The Union Home Minister, Amit Shah said on Saturday that there has been a huge reduction in terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir ever since the semi-autonomous status of the erstwhile state was revoked by the BJP-led government at the Centre in August 2019.
“When we assess the internal security scenario of the country eight years ago, the terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, insurgency inside the Northeast and increasing violence in the left wing extremism areas, were the three major challenges in front of us,” Shah said.
He made these remarks at the passing out parade of the 74th batch of the Indian Police Service (IPS) probationers at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy at Hyderabad on Saturday.
“Now, after 8 years, the government has succeeded in countering these three challenges to a large extent. He said that after the abrogation of Article 370, there has been a huge reduction in terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir,” he added.
Hailing the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Home Minister said that the main reasons for the reduction in the incidents of terrorism across the country was the policy of ‘zero tolerance’ against terrorism, strong framework of counter-terror laws, empowerment of all agencies and strong political will.
Shah said that during the last seven decades, the country has seen many ups and downs in the field of security and faced many challenges, and while facing these challenges, more than 36,000 police personnel have made the supreme sacrifices.
“Looking back at the 75 years after independence, today India’s situation has changed from Local to Global and from Violent to Vibrant,” he said.
Speaking about the changed situation in North-East, the Home Minister said that over 8,000 cadets have been brought back to the mainstream by signing a peace deal with many insurgent organizations in the North East and settling the border disputes between the states.
“A wave of development has begun today and with the establishment of peace a dawn of new era has been witnessed in North East. By filling the security vacuum and cracking down on their top leadership of LWE, the number of 96 districts under Left Wing Extremist zones in 2010 reduced just to 46 in 2021,” he said.
“India has showcased a successful example to the world by banning PFI. Central agencies and the police of all the states of the country have succeeded in banning an organization like PFI by successful operation in a single day. It shows the maturity and power of our democracy,” he added.
The Home Minister further said that at present the security scenario is changing from Geographical to Thematic and now multi-dimensional policing will have to be accepted instead of single dimensional policing.
“In place of geographical threats like Northeast left wing extremism, communal hotspots, now thematic threats like cyber crime, misuse of data, misinformation are emerging that need to be dealt firmly,” he said.
“Earlier there were challenges of terrorism, extremism and day-to-day policing, but now we are faced with multidimensional challenges like terror Finance, narco terror, fourth generation information warfare,” he added.
Calling upon police forces to be equipped to grapple with these challenges, Shah said that a new approach is to be devised by the authorities to counter the challenges and strengthen policing.
“Our focus should be on the security of the country’s economic centres, protection of human rights of the poor, evidence-based investigation, evidence-based forensic science, and cracking down on terror links of narcotics, cyber and financial fraud,” he added.
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