RS-SECURITY CHIDAMBARAM 2

Chidambaram, who deals with terrorism "24 hours a day",
said the government policy would be zero tolerance towards the
Jihadi or Hindu militants.

As for cross-border threat, he said, "Our security forces
have the capacity to prevent any terror attack. God forbid,
should there be any terrorist attack, our response will be
swift and decisive."
He said over a dozen attempts have been foiled. "While
terrorist and insurgents choose the time to attack and they
have to be lucky just once to succeed, we have to be Lucky
every time to foil these things".
The Indian Home Minister said like the US has been Lucky
not to face any more terrorist attack after 9/11 in 2001,
India too has been fortunate not to see it in the last 12
months. "Luck plays a great role...In the last 12 months I
have been reasonably lucky."
He said the central government has a policy of zero
tolerance towards terrorism "be it Jihadi or Hindu militancy
...both are terrorism".
After opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) objected to
his statement of "Hindu militancy", Chidambaram said whether
it is Islamic terrorist or Hindu militancy, there has to be
zero tolerance.
On situation in Jammu and Kashmir in north India,
Chidambaram said the Centre is willing to take "what appears
to be a risky step" of withdrawing security forces and hand
over law and order to the state police.
"I would take what appears to be a risky step of
withdrawing a significant number of battalions of security
forces in J and K. We are now transferring more and more law
and order (duties) to J and K police," he said. (MORE) PTI AMR
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