This Article is From Nov 29, 2014

Al Qaeda a Serious Threat, Says Rajnath Singh: Highlights

Home Minister Rajnath Singh speaks during the conference in Assam

Home Minister Rajnath Singh addresses a conference of India's police chiefs and senior intelligence officials in Guhawati.

Here are the highlights:

  • The role of our police forces and the intelligence agencies has been crucial in ensuring security to our people
  • Intelligence, police force and CRPF should be given credit
  • When I see you guys in this dress I feel a sense of confidence and responsibility
  • Tribute to all those brave police personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty
  • North East should be as safe and secure as other states, and equally developed
  • NDA government has sanctioned Rs 50 crore for constructing police memorial in Delhi
  • A terrorist network has been exposed in West Bengal, the police and NIA are playing an important role in exposing the network
  • We are concerned about the fact that some Indian youngsters are getting drawn to Islamic State
  • We can't take al-Qaeda's threat of turning India into an Islamic country lightly, we should consider it a challenge
  • There might be many terrorist organisations in the world but we will not allow them to get a foothold in our country
  • Concerned over the ethnic and socio-economic conflicts in the North Eastern region
  • There is lack of development in North East, let me assure you...we are committed towards comprehensive development of this region
  • Lack of development & quality infrastructure in the North East very poor
  • The government is committed to boost infrastructure in the region
  • Incidents of violence have been reduced in the Left Wing Extremism affected states
  • On attack in Arnia sector: Pakistan claims non state actors are behind such incidents which is not true
  • Key National highways should be under CCTV coverage by 2019
  • I am not happy with the manner in which minor ports are guarded
  • Concerned over growing use of cyber space by anti-national and anti-social forces...steps should be taken to monitor cyberspace
  • Our coastal security network is inadequate and it should be strengthened
  • Pakistani state is engaged in destabilizing India
  • I want to ask Pakistan is ISI also a non-state actor

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