Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday emphasised the shifting landscape of country’s security challenges, noting that while the nation grapples with border instability, society faces a new surge in sophisticated crimes, terrorism and “ideological wars”.Speaking on the occasion of Police Commemoration Day, Singh underscored the critical need to balance external and internal security to achieve the vision of a ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047.
“Areas that were once known as the red corridor have now transformed into growth corridors,” the defence minister said, highlighting the significant progress made against the Naxal problem, long a major internal security challenge, and credited the concerted and organised efforts of the police, CRPF, BSF and local administration in preventing the problem from escalating.
Police Commemoration Day is observed annually to honour the memory of 10 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who were killed in an ambush by Chinese troops in Ladakh’s Hot Spring area on this day in 1959.