India has power to take action against terrorism even across border: Rajnath
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Mavelikkara: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that India possesses the capability to counter terror activities by taking action across the border, if required.
“If anyone tries to encourage terrorist activities in India, we have the power to deal with it here and, if required, take action even on the other side of the border,” the minister said.
Singh made the statement here while criticising the CPI(M)-led LDF and the Congress-led UDF for having sought proof of the cross-border airstrike in 2019 carried out by Indian defence forces on terror camps across the border.
Addressing a poll rally organised by the BJP-led NDA in the Mavelikkara Lok Sabha constituency, he dubbed the questions of the Congress and the Left as “anti-national in nature”, and said the people in the country are aware of that.
Modi made India secure by conducting surgical, air strikes inside Pakistan: Amit Shah
Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi made India secure by carrying out surgical and air strikes inside Pakistan after terror attacks. Modi also took the country’s economy from the 11th to the fifth spot in ten years, and will take it to the third spot in the world in his third term, he said, speaking at a campaign rally in Vejalpur area of the city. Shah is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar constituency.
“Narendra Modi worked to secure the country. In the Sonia (Gandhi)-Manmohan (Singh) government, anybody would enter from Pakistan and conduct bomb explosions here everyday,” he said.
The BJP won all 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat (in 2014) and Modi became the country’s prime minister, Shah said.
Terrorists subsequently struck in Uri (in 2016) and Pulwama (in 2019), but they did not know that “now Manmohan Singh is not the prime minister but Narendra Modi is,” the BJP leader said.
“Within a few days, we went inside Pakistan and conducted surgical and air strikes. Narendra Bhai secured the country,” Shah said.
Senior Congress leader Kodikkunnil Suresh is the UDF candidate in Mavelikkara, where CPI’s C A Arun Kumar is contesting as the LDF candidate, and the NDA is represented by Baiju Kalashala of the Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BJDS), BJP’s ally.
The 2019 Balakot airstrike involved Indian warplanes conducting a bombing raid on February 26, 2019, in Balakot, Pakistan.
The alleged target was a training camp belonging to the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed.
