Book of Integration Council New - Ministry of Home Affairs

Home Minister : May I request Mrs. Vasundhara Raje to make her statement.
Mrs. Vasundhara Raje
Hon’ble Prime Minister, Members on the dais, Members of the National
Integration Council.
Sir, I just want to make a point, two points. I want to bring to everyone notice that
Rajasthan is both a victim State and also a border state. Infact we share the largest
border with our neighbor and with whom we fought almost four wars. This also over
the past three decades and now this neighbor is engaged with us in most unconventional
conflict and terrorism has become really their preferred doctrine. Rajasthan has
become a direct victim not so long ago sir, dozens of people were killed, scores of
people were seriously and griviously injured and our businesses especially things like
tourism are deeply affected. The terror network to speak has spread right across the
country and stikes at will at the place, the point, the skill, the method and all these they
have no constraints. They are brutal, they are barbaric and they are completely ruthless.
Really it is not poverty Sir, that drives them to this, nor the unemployment, nor even
the lack of education, or the lack of opportunity or even caste. On the contrary, they
are well educated and well off by our Indian standards. The repeated statements of
certain people equating counter terrorism with the witchhunt of the educated in Minorities
communities is I think to a large extent is quite disgusting. This is an extraordinary
situation and our laws and criminal justice system have to adopt to new challenges. We
in Rajasthan want to bring to book these barbarians. Our proposed law to deal with
terror has been pending clearance for now quite a long time. Central Government has
discriminated against us. While it allows Maharashtra similar law, we are unable to use
this law in Rajasthan. Why are we diluting our most serious challenges to national security
by equating terrorism with activities of the likes of organizations. A terrorist really has
no religion, no caste and absolutely no sense of loyality towards this country. A normal
law will deal with groups,which are of communal origins. The terror is a whole different
story, terror is not about politics. A terror strike can happen anywhere. It can happen in
a BJP ruled States. It can happen under the nose of the Union Home Ministry, right
here in Delhi and every time, a terrorist actually makes his mark, kills a person, an
innocent Indian loses his life. We expect the Government of India to provide support to
the States in dealing with the forces of terrorism. Instead of compounding the situation
by using arm twisting techniques of article 360, 355 or 356. Our country today is
flooded with illegal immigrants yet no strong steps are being taken to address this
issue. No other country in the world would allow such an activity. The fight against
terror has to be, Sir, a united and a very resolute fight. It must not weaken at the altar
of vote bank politics and it must be fought by all of us, not regarding our party affiliations,
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