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Nagaland: Shah: Total AFSPA exit from Nagaland in next 3-4 years | India News

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GUWAHATI: PM Narendra Modi’s initiative to take the Naga peace talks to fruition should pave the way for the total exit of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from Nagaland within the next three to four years, Union home minister Amit Shah said Tuesday during his second poll rally in the state in 24 hours.
“I want to remind you all of Nagaland before 2014. Bloodshed, gunfights, blasts, and insurgency traumatised the state. Modi ji then started the ongoing peace process, putting Nagaland on the path to lasting peace and development with the preservation of Naga culture, language and traditions,” he said in Tuensang, one of the six eastern districts that had briefly raised the bogey of a poll boycott until their demand for a separate “Frontier Nagaland” was fulfilled.
These six districts comprise 20 of the 60 assembly constituencies going to polls on February 27.

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In Tuensang, Shah said steps taken by the Centre in the last nine years had led to a 70% decline in violence and other disturbances across the northeastern states. “Casualties among security forces deployed in the region have dropped 60% while civilian deaths in violence have dipped 83%.”
He said the improvement in law and order was borne out by withdrawal of the armed forces law from 15 police station limits across seven districts during the current BJP-NDPP government’s term.
He also pointed to budgetary allocations for tribals increasing from Rs 21,000 crore in 2014 to Rs 86,000 crore in 2022 as an illustration of change under NDA’s governance.
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