New Delhi: Addressing the Northeast Student and Youth Parliament organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, Union Home Minister Amit Shah discussed several issues. He said that in just 10 years, the Northeast is experiencing complete peace today except for the violence in Manipur. He said, ‘There were a total of 11,000 incidents of violence from 2004 to 2014 and 3,428 incidents from 2014 to 2024, that is, there has been a reduction of 70 percent. The number of deaths of security forces has also decreased by 70 percent. The number of deaths of civilians has decreased by 89 percent in the last 10 years.’
He said, ‘Our Northeast is experiencing peace today. Be it Meghalaya, Arunachal, Assam, Nagaland or Mizoram, we have signed agreements with all armed groups and more than 10,500 militants have laid down their arms and joined the mainstream. Our government has signed 12 important agreements in 10 years.’ He said, ‘The biggest achievement of the BJP government is that it has reduced the distance between the Northeast and the rest of India. By 2027, every capital of the Northeast will be connected by train, plane and road.’
He said, ‘There can be no development in a state where there is no peace and Narendra Modi’s government has worked to bring peace in the Northeast. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a huge budget for the development of the Northeast. In ten years, the Prime Minister has taken so much care of the development of the Northeast, considering it his own that he has decided that every month some minister will stay overnight in some state of the Northeast. I want to tell you that since independence till now, the total number of visits to the Northeast by all the Prime Ministers except Assam is 21 and the number of visits of Narendra Modi alone to the Northeast is 78, which shows how much importance has been given to the Northeast.’
