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Militants being regularly killed - India now virtually 'Terror-Free': PM Modi


Citing the example of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that India is now virtually “terror-free”.

Addressing an election rally at Pimpalgaon in Nashik district, Modi said: “Scores were killed in Sri Lanka when terrorists struck at the innocent Christians peacefully engaged in prayers in churches, yesterday (Sunday).”

“What was the situation in India prior to 2014? There were regular terror strikes in Maharashtra, Ayodhya, Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country. The (then) Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government just mourned and kept crying about Pakistan.”

“But after coming to power in 2014, your ‘Chowkidar’ changed that strategy and rammed the terrorists inside their dens and the result is before all to see,” he said, referring to the February 26 Indian Air Force strikes in Balakot, Pakistan, after the February 14 Pulwama attack which killed 40 CRPF troopers.

Militancy is now practically erased from the country, barring some pockets in Jammu and Kashmir but even there, our security forces regularly keep killing the militants, he said. “The militants are scared that under ‘Modi’ they cannot escape punishment,” he said.

Under attack from the Congress for not letting the Rafale contract go to the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Modi accused the opposition party of destroying the state-run enterprise. The HAL has a unit in Nashik.

The PM said his government has increased defence production under the ‘Make in India’ programme.
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