Times have changed, terrorists are not safe in their homes: PM Modi | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said terrorists do not feel safe in their homes now, unlike during the tenure of previous governments.
Modi said he had seen accounts of the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai at an exhibition at the site and said: “There was a time when people felt unsafe in their own homes and cities because of the terror sponsored by neighboring countries . But now times have changed.”
He said he saw news clippings about Kashmir’s merger with India and experienced the same excitement that people felt in October 1947. “It was then that I realized how indecision had kept Kashmir mired in violence for 70 years,” he said while delivering the keynote address at the ‘HT Leadership Summit’.
Past governments came up with plans to please vote for banks: Modi
Prime Minister Modi on Saturday said it was encouraging that the news of the record number of votes in the J&K elections is now being published in newspapers. Targeting previous governments for introducing schemes to appease their vote bank, the Prime Minister said his government’s aim was “miles away from such politics” and that it was moving forward with the mantra of “progress of the people, through people, and for the people.”
The Prime Minister said that the greatest damage is caused by The vote bank politics that previous governments indulged in was increasing the extent of inequality across the country. Modi said his dispensation has restored people’s confidence in the government. Recalling the period of the 1990s when India had five elections in 10 years, Modi said there was so much instability in the country. “Experts, people writing in the newspapers, had predicted that India will have to live like this, everything will continue like this in India. But citizens of India have once again proven such experts wrong,” he said.
Modi noted that uncertainty and instability are being discussed and witnessed around the world, with many countries witnessing changes in government with every election. Modi pointed out that at such a time, the people of India have voted for his government for the third time.