As economic clout grows, efforts to destabilise country, says Rajnath Singh

Chandigarh : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said owing to India’s growing economic clout at the international level, there were efforts to destabilise the country and its march towards development.Addressing a regional editors’ conference here, Singh said it was important that India, which shared its borders with six countries in south Asia, should have effective border management.He said India is among the fastest growing economies and should be among the top three in a few years; as a result, there were efforts to destabilise her.
The Home Minister said, “We have taken steps to have peaceful borders with Myanmar and Nepal. Bangladesh and Myanmar are active borders. The border along China and Pakistan are strategic and sensitive.” He said, “The Sino-Indian relations are smooth and there has been reduction in transgressions along the India-China border. It has dropped by 40 per cent in the past one year, and 70 per cent since 2014. The dispute over the India-China border is secondary, but trade is of prime concern.” Pakistan on the other hand, he said, is obsessed with certain areas and is isolating itself because of that. He said even in the BRICS summit, all countries, including China, had condemned Pakistani support for terrorism. Pakistan did not know the difference between freedom fighters and terrorists in Kashmir, he said. “The state actors in Pakistan are actively involved in this. Thus we are ready with our action plan on border management after the Madhukar committee report. By 2018, our border with Pakistan–3,323 km–will be made secure,” he said.