Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that India’s security policy was either “influenced or was overlapping” with the foreign policy and it was only after Narendra Modi became PM that the country got an independent security strategy.
Shah was delivering the ‘Rustamji memorial lecture’ and it was being attended by personnel and officers of the Border Security Force (BSF).
He also gave way gallantry medals to serving personnel and for those killed in the line of duty from the country’s largest frontier force.
“I used to think if there is a security policy of this country or not? Till Narendra Modi became the prime minister, we did not have any independent security policy,” Shah said.
“It was either influenced by foreign policy or it was overlapping with the foreign policy,” he said.
Shah said that after Narendra Modi became prime minister, the country got an independent security policy.
Our idea is to have peaceful relations with all, but if someone disturbs our borders, if someone challenges our sovereignty, the priority of our security policy is that such an attempt will be replied in the same language,” he said.
This security policy was a “big achievement” as the country wanted such a good plan, Shah said.
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