NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday said terrorists now do not feel safe in their homes, unlike during the tenure of previous governments.
Mentioning that he saw reports of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack at an exhibition at the venue, Modi said, “There was a time when people felt unsafe in their own houses and cities due to the terror sponsored by neighbouring countries. However, now times have changed.”
He said he saw news clippings about Kashmir’s merger with India and experienced the same excitement people felt in October 1947. “At that moment I realised how indecisiveness had kept Kashmir mired in violence for seven decades,” he said, delivering the keynote address at the ‘HT Leadership Summit’.
Past governments brought schemes to please vote banks: Modi
PM Modi on Saturday said it was heartening that news of record voting in elections in J&K is now published in papers. Hitting out at earlier governments for introducing schemes to please their vote bank, the PM said his government’s purpose was “miles away from such politics” and that it was moving ahead with the mantra of “progress of the people, by the people, and for the people”.
The PM said the biggest harm caused by vote bank politics that earlier governments indulged in was that the scope of inequality across country kept increasing. Modi said his dispensation restored people’s faith in government. Recalling the period of 1990s when India had five elections in 10 years, Modi said there was so much instability in the country. “Experts, people writing in newspapers, had predicted that India will have to live like this, everything will go on like this in India. But citizens of India have once again proved such experts wrong,” he said.
Noting that uncertainty and instability are being discussed & seen all around the world with many countries witnessing change of governments in every election, Modi pointed out that at such a time, people of India have chosen his government for the third time.