NEW DELHI: Home Minister Rajnath Singh is setting one tough goal after another for his government. To his earlier target of sealing the country's borders by Bangladesh by mid-2018, Mr Rajnath Singh added a few more on Friday.
Speaking at a programme on building a 'new India', the Home Minister declared that the government would, by 2022, find a solution to the Kashmir problem, terrorism, naxalism and insurgency in the Northeast, problems that have festered for more than five decades.
Mr Singh was addressing a programme "Sankalp se Siddhi (From pledge to accomplishment) - Celebrating the New India Movement" in the national capital. On the occasion, the news agency said, he also administered an oath to his audience for making India clean, poverty-free, corruption-free, terror-free, communalism-free and casteism-free.
"If people could take (Quit India) pledge in 1942 and get freedom in 1947... then why can't we make a 'new India' after taking pledge in 2017 and realising it in 2022?" the minister said.
In December last year, Mr Singh had vowed to seal the Indo-Bangladesh border by mid-2018.
(With inputs from Press Trust of India)
Speaking at a programme on building a 'new India', the Home Minister declared that the government would, by 2022, find a solution to the Kashmir problem, terrorism, naxalism and insurgency in the Northeast, problems that have festered for more than five decades.
Mr Singh was addressing a programme "Sankalp se Siddhi (From pledge to accomplishment) - Celebrating the New India Movement" in the national capital. On the occasion, the news agency said, he also administered an oath to his audience for making India clean, poverty-free, corruption-free, terror-free, communalism-free and casteism-free.
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"If people could take (Quit India) pledge in 1942 and get freedom in 1947... then why can't we make a 'new India' after taking pledge in 2017 and realising it in 2022?" the minister said.
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In December last year, Mr Singh had vowed to seal the Indo-Bangladesh border by mid-2018.
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(With inputs from Press Trust of India)
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