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linked to any religion.He claimed “Har Har Mahadev” was the war cry given by Shivaji Maharaj while fighting against the Mughals.He cleared the doubts about the timing of their

killings and said the CRPF, Army and J&K police, while staying in difficult terrain and having food sent from drones followed and killed them.The Home Minister also highlighted the achievement of the government in the last 11 years.He read out the Prime Minister’s speech delivered on April 24, 2025, and said that following the PM’s

guidance, not only terrorists were eliminated but their launchpad was also destroyed.He said the government decided to end the one-sided Indus Water Treaty as Indian farmers have their rights on the Indus water.Shah stated that at least 100 people were killed and the headquarters of terror outfits such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen were destroyed by the Modi government.“I proudly

declare to the world… Hindus can never be terrorists,” he said, questioning the Congress for filing false cases against many “patriotic religious institutions”.“The Congress never took any concrete steps for the preparation of the Indian Army. During the war with China, we didn’t even have proper clothes to wear in the cold… there was neither salt nor matchsticks, and we had a

severe shortage of guns and cartridges.”Shah said today, under the leadership of Modi ji, the Army is equipped with modern weapons like the BrahMos missile.“The ‘Akash Teer’ missile destroys enemy missiles in the air itself, and our Army can turn Pakistan’s entire air defence system into rubble in just half an hour,” Shah

said.He said the Congress govt would have given a clean chit to Pakistan had they been in power today.Operation Sindoor is not a war but the use of India’s power for self-defence, he said.Shah further asserted that there has been a 75 per cent reduction in violence in insurgency and Left-wing extremism under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi.Elaborated steps taken by the government to destroy the terror finance

ecosystem in Kashmir, Shah said that Article 370 gave opportunities to Pakistan to promote terrorism in Kashmir but its removal started an era of elimination of terrorism.“In Jammu and Kashmir, 2,564 stone-pelting incidents occurred in 2010. Not a single incident has occurred after 2024,” Shah said.“Organized strikes — announced by Hurriyat leaders sitting in Pakistan, which kept the Valley shut for 132 days annually, have not been called even once in the last three

years. Now they no longer have the courage to call for a shutdown,” Shah said.“We hoisted the flag of the Indian constitution in Kashmir,” the Home Minister said, adding that terrorism is on the verge of extinction in Kashmir.