"A neighbouring country of our again and again encourages terrorism and terrorist activities to harm India. Perhaps it was not able to understand the fact that terrorism is not a weapon of the brave but of cowards," Singh said at the concluding ceremony of Chhattisgarh Rajyotsav - the 16th foundation day celebrations at Naya Raipur.
Further referring to surgical strike by Army after the Uri attack, he said, "You have seen how they cowardly attacked our jawans but after that our jawans did a wonderful job. I want to assure that this government will never let India to bow its head before anyone".
"Today, India is progressing rapidly. It is the country which has highest economic growth rate in the world presently. Some countries (anti-India) are jealous of us and trying to destabilise (the country). They are trying to weaken India. But I assure youthat under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi no power couldweaken India," he said.
Singh further re-affirmed his commitment to extend every possible support to Chhattisgarh in its fight against Naxalism.
"Development is taking place rapidly in Chhattisgarh but the Maoist activities has been a matter of concern for all of us.
Maoists never wanted roads to be built in the remote villages, good education for children, better communication system, good jobs for youth, the Minister said.
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Citing a US Department of Agriculture meet convened to define genetic sequence of cows where 300 scientists were invited from 25 countries, Singh said it had concluded that 80 per cent of the genes found in the cow and a human were the same.
"Today, we have a gathering of 'gau rakshaks' who have come together to pay homage to those killed 50 years ago and this government's Home Minister is sitting with us on the stage in joining us pay homage. In that society, there was a conspiracy being hatched from behind and today our Home Minister is saying 'gau mata ki jai'," the RSS leader said.
A large number of religious leaders and VHP and RSS leaders were present during the meet where tributes were paid to those killed in the agitation.
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