Tripura: Give us 5 more years, will make Tripura No. 1 state: Rajnath | India News – Times of India

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AGARTALA: Defence minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday held up poll-bound Tripura as an example of transformation under BJP’s governance, saying the erstwhile hotbed of insurgency was primed to become “the No 1 state in the country if you give us five more years”.
“Fences have been erected along the Tripura-Bangladesh border to prevent illegal entry from across the border. Under Congress and CPM governments, this wasn’t done. Work started when BJP formed the government at the Centre,” Singh said during an election rally with chief minister Manik Saha in the border constituency of Rajnagar in South Tripura district. He declared BJP would win at least 50 seats in the election to the 60-member assembly on February 16. He termed the seat-sharing agreement between Congress and CPM a “jugalbandi between a flute that does not produce sound and a sitar with torn strings”. “During communist rule in Tripura, militancy was at its peak. But after BJP came, the situation changed,” he said.
India was earlier known as a weak nation. But now, the whole world is aware that India is a strong country. We are now ready to face any challenge. The Army easily neutralises Pakistan-backed terrorists entering our sovereign territory. When required, we even entered Pakistan and liquidated terrorists. We can kill these terrorists on either side of the border.”





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