Story in numbers: No major terror attack since 2014, says Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh earlier too had said that except for J&K, no terror attack had occurred in the country in the last five years

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, while addressing an execut­ive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in Gujarat’s Ke­va­dia on September 2, 2021, claim­ed that India has seen no major terror attack since Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined office in 2014.

“This government will never allow any terrorist intentions to be successful. Since Narendra Modi has come as the Prime Minister, forget Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), India's hinterland has not witnessed any major terror act,” newspapers quoted him as saying.

While speaking in Lok Sabha in November 2019, Rajnath Singh earlier too had said that except for J&K, no terror attack