This year most peaceful in a decade: Chidambaram
July 6th, 2011 - 3:48 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida, July 6 (IANS) So far this year, India has witnessed the lowest levels of violence in a decade thanks to the paramilitary forces, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Wednesday.
“In the first six months of 2011, we have seen the lowest levels of violence in the country in the last decade, whether it is terrorism in Kashmir or insurgency in the northeast or the Maoists,” Chidambaram told reporters here at an event to lay the foundation stone of an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) referral hospital.
“The credit goes to the paramilitary forces of our country who are doing all the dirty work so that we can sleep peacefully at night,” he added.
According to the minister, the people of India should be empathetic towards the lakhs of central armed police force personnel who face frost bite in one posting and unbearable heat in the other.
“These brave men and women are fighting a battle everyday in some part of the country or other to serve us… please show empathy towards them,” said Chidambaram.
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