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Union home minister Amit Shah has said the country has zero tolerance towards terrorism and has developed a “proactive” defence policy under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Shah also said that India has now joined the league of countries like the United States and Israel in carrying out surgical strikes.
Now, after Modiji became the PM, we have developed a proactive defence policy segregated from the foreign policy,” he said in Rajarhat, while inaugurating a new building of the National Security Guards.
Shah arrived in Kolkata in the morning on a day-long visit. Opposition parties protested against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and raised ‘Go Back’ slogans outside the airport.
Shah was greeted by the West Bengal BJP leadership, led by state party president Dilip Ghosh.
Hundreds of protesters of the Left Front and Congress, holding black flags and anti-CAA posters, demonstrated outside gate number 1 of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport.
Police had put up a barricade to prevent them from crossing over to the entrance of the airport.
Shah is scheduled to address a rally at the Shaheed Minar Ground, where the state BJP will felicitate him for the passage of the amended citizenship law in Parliament. BJP national president J P Nadda will also attend the public meeting.
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah to shortly address a public rally in Shaheed Minar. #WestBengal pic.twitter.com/FtyF4pjeLQ
— ANI (@ANI) March 1, 2020
This apart, the home minister will inaugurate a new building of National Security Guards at Rajarhat, and hold closed-door meetings with the state BJP leadership along with Nadda.
Shah will also visit the Kalighat Temple in south Kolkata.
