TEZPUR (Assam) :
UNION Home Minister
Amit Shah on Saturday
asserted that the country
will be free from the menace of Naxalism in the
next three years.
Shah, while addressing
the Sashastra Seema Bal’s
60th Raising Day at
Salonibari near here, also
said among all the Central
Armed Police Forces, SSB
plays “a unique role in
minutely integrating culture, history, topography
and language” of the border villages, and bringing
people in those areas closer to rest of the country.
Besides guarding the
borders, the SSB along
with other CAPFs have
performed their duties
effectively against the Naxals in Chhattisgarh and
Jharkhand, he said.
“In the next three years,
under the leadership of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, the
country will be 100 per cent
free from the Naxal problem,”
asserted Shah.
The Home Minister presented awards for exemplary service to six SSB personnel along with trophies to
three battalions, besides
releasinga postagestampon
the occasion.
Assam Chief Minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma was
present at the event, too.
Later at the 13th Triennial
ConferenceoftheAllBathou
Mahasabha in Dhekiajuli,
Shah said, the Congress had
a policy to “divert attention
from problems and enjoy
power, which led to the
deaths of thousands of people in the region”, particularly in the Bodoland.
The Union Home Minister
added that Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s mission of
bringing peace and development in the north-easthas
been successful.
“When I became Home
Minister, the Bodo movement was underway and I
made a sincere attempt to
understand the problems
and demands of one of the
largest communities of the
north-east,” he said.
The Prime Minister also
viewed it from a new perspectiveandtheproblemwas
resolved with Bodoland
“today being free from bomb
blasts, firing and violence”,
Shah said. Addressing the
passing out parade of the first
batch of the five newly-constituted Assam Police
Commando battalions,Shah
said the Centre is rethinking
the free-movement facility
with Myanmar.
“The India-Myanmar border will be protected like the
Bangladesh border... The
Government of India will stop
the free movement with
Myanmar,” he said.