Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 17

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said it was PM Narendra Modi’s government, which for the first time delinked India’s security architecture for the country with that of foreign policy and brought about a new independent strategy to deal with the issue.

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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.  - Amit Shah, Union Home Minister

Shah, while delivering the “Rustamji memorial lecture”, which was organised by the Border Security Force (BSF), said India’s security policy for long remained “either influenced or overlapped” with the foreign policy.

The memorial lecture and investiture ceremony is an annual affair to remember the contribution of BSF’s first DG KF Rustamji, who was an officer of the 1938 batch of the British-time Imperial Police. Rustamji headed the BSF for nine years and died in 2003.

The minister also gave way gallantry medals to serving personnel and to those who were killed in the line of duty.

Shah said the government was working to ensure that there “will be no gap in the fencing” along India’s borders by next year. He said about three per cent of the country’s border was unfenced at present and this has left a “big space” for infiltration of terrorists and other border crimes.