‘Terrorists will fill vacuum’: Rahul on Farooq detention
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Modi government will not tolerate any breach of India's territory and is ready to deal with any such acts strongly.
Shah also asserted that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has been peaceful ever since the special status given to the state under Article 370 was abrogated on August 5 and added that not a single bullet has been fired nor has anyone died since then.
"There will be no compromise on India's security. We will not tolerate even an inch of breach of our territory. We will deal with it strongly. We will not allow any drop of blood of our soldiers go in vain," he said addressing an event of the All India Management Association here. Home Minister Amit Shah and Rp-sanjiv Goenka Group Chairman Sanjiv Goenka during the 46th National Management Convention of the All India Management Association (AIMA), in New Delhi, Tuesday
Coming down heavily on the previous Congress regime for not adopting a comprehensive national security policy, the home minister said the country's strategic policy was "eaten up" by the foreign policy.
"After the surgical strike and the air strike, the perception of the world has changed and India's strength has been recognised globally," he said.
On September 29, 2016, the Army had carried out surgical strikes against terror launch NEW DELHI: Non-government Organisations receiving substantial financing from the government are bound to give information to the public under the RTI Act, the SC held on Tuesday. The SC said institutions like schools, colleges and hospitals which receive substantial aid from the government both directly or indirectly in the form of land ... are also bound to give information to the citizens under the RTI. pads across the Line of Control in POK after terrorists attacked a brigade headquarters in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir.
On February 26 this year, the Indian Air Force carried out an attack on a terrorist base at Balakot in Pakistan after a bus of the CRPF was blown up by terrorists at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
Referring to the scrapping of the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir, Shah said the decision was a significant step towards the motto of 'Akhand Bharat' (united India).
The home minister said before the Modi government came to power in 2014, there was chaos everywhere, there was no security at borders and people had doubts about the multi-party democracy system and wondered whether India's multi-party democracy had failed. NEW DELHI: The government is trying to "remove nationalist leaders like Farooq Abdullah" to create a political vacuum that will be filled by terrorists, Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday, targeting the government for the veteran Jammu and Kashmir leader's detention under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).
"It's obvious that the Government is trying to remove nationalist leaders like Farooq Abdullah Ji to create a political vacuum in Jammu and Kashmir that will be filled by terrorists. Kashmir can then permanently be used as a political instrument to polarise the rest of India," tweeted the Congress leader.
Several opposition politicians have denounced the move to use on Farooq Abdullah the PSA, a law that enables detention for up to two years without trial and has so far been applied to terrorists, separatists and stone-throwers in Jammu and Kashmir.
Abdullah will face the section of the law that deals with disturbing public order, which would mean a minimum of three-month detention. His home in Srinagar will be designated a "jail" for his detention.
Till now, the 83-year-old three-time Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir had been under unofficial house arrest for six weeks without any formal paperwork. A formal charge was brought against him on Monday, as the Supreme Court took up a petition asking for his immediate release.
Hundreds of Jammu and Kashmir politicians, including Omar Abdullah - Abdullah's son - and Mehbooba Mufti, both former chief ministers, have been arrested or detained as party of a security clampdown since August 5, when the government declared that special status to the state under Article 370 would end and it would be split into two union territories.
Farooq Abdullah, however, is the first mainstream politician and the first MP to be charged under the PSA. The decision was seen by many as an attempt to pre-empt any court decision forcing his release. CPM leader Sitaram Yechury called the move a "cowardly afterthought" by the ruling BJP. "Farooq Abdullah has stood by India through thick and thin. Why has the PSA been imposed? This is a cowardly afterthought by the BJP government with no respect for either India or its Constitution," Yechury said.
DMK leader MK Stalin tweeted that the move was "excessive, arbitrary and unlawful". Congress leader Kapil Sibal questioned whether the step to invoke PSA against Abdullah after 43 days was prompted by MDMK chief Vaiko's plea in the SC seeking a directive that the former J&K chief minister be produced before it.