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RAISINA DIALOGUE 2024

How India’s Internal Security

vision became ‘defining driver’

of International Engagement

The ORF President says that the vision presented by the Union Home Minister Amit Sah

was important for those who engage with India, to understand what India stands for

OUR BUREAU Amit Shah took office as Minis-
ter of Home Affairs on June 1, 2019.
New Delhi
Among the highlights of his tenure
auding the vision of Union are the revocation of Article 370 in
Home Minister Amit Shah Jammu and Kashmir and the intro-
Lregarding India’s internal se- duction of the Citizenship (Amend-
curity, the Observer Research Foun- ment) Act, 2019, which grants Indian
dation (ORF) President, Samir Saran citizenship to religiously persecuted
said that internal security is a defining minority communities who migrated
driver of the country’s international to the country before 2015 from the
engagements, and those engaging Muslim-majority countries of Paki-
with New Delhi should have a very stan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
clear-eyed view of it. He recently also introduced
In an interview, Saran strongly three new bills that were passed by
commended Shah’s address on the the parliament and will replace the
nation’s security at the ORF and Indian Penal Code.
underlined that it was “desperately
needed.” Opening the conference, Dr.
“He was very clear. We will give Samir Saran, President, Ob-
development. We are number one.
We want to focus on development server Research Foundation
make everyone’s lives better. Sec- (ORF), described the present
ond, infrastructure and investments. Amit Shah, in his address, highlighted that the Centre has improved law and order in three
Number three, let us go and do deals. as an “age of unpeace”, riven
You know, let us negotiate. Let us hotspots of Jammu and Kashmir, leftist extremist areas and the North-East (ANI) by conflicts and contests. In
create agreements with everyone
who has problems with us. And only ty vision was presented so that those Europe is a global issue” he said. spite of these divided times,
fourth was the muscular zero toler- who engage with India understand In February first week, Amit cooperation is possible, he
ance approach to picking up the gun what we stand for. I think his speech Shah addressed the launch event of
or terror and stuff like that. I think he was important. Internal security is a the Observer Research Foundation’s said, and India’s performance
laid out a vision on the internal secu- defining driver of our international (ORF) Foreign Policy Survey in the as a consensus-builder has
rity issues which in many ways is very engagement. External engagement national capital. He emphasized how
important for our external relations. is basically a mirror of what the inter- India wants to maintain a friendship been exemplary.
You know, people who are engaging nal security situation is” Saran said. with the whole world, but not com-
with us should have a very clear-eyed Saran highlighted that what hap- promise the security of the country ORF Chairman Sunjoy Joshi
view of what India’s internal security pens internally in India cannot be ig- and its citizens. defined the first quarter of the 21st
architecture is. And that it is not in nored by the world. Shah, in his address, highlighted century as a period of churn, during
silos” Saran told ANI. “India’s internal security is not in- that the Centre has improved law which some nations struggled to
The ORF President said that the ternal security. We are a continental and order in three hotspots of Jam- guard borders while others strove to
vision presented by the Union Home security. Our security implicates the mu and Kashmir, leftist extremist ar- escape conflict. With democracies
Minister was important for those world. You know, it is like Europe- eas and the North-East. under assault, and disinformation
who engage with India, to under- an security. European security is like, He further said that if a country’s trumping truth, forging consensus
stand what India stands for. you know, EU is 28, 27 countries. So, borders are not secure, the country and devising solutions for all were
“It was important that internal India is a little bigger. So, you know, cannot remain safe because the secu- more urgent than ever before, he ob-
security dialogue or internal securi- between countries, what happens in rity of the border is national security. served.

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