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Prime Minister, Dr.
Manmohan Singh addressing the National Press Conference, in New Delhi
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 UPA: One
year after return to power:
This May 2010, UPA completed its one
year in the seat of power for the second term. Now it is being
christened as UPA II and political pundits .....
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New Delhi:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday described the first year of
UPA-II as one of "reasonable achievement" but said his government
could have done more.
"I believe that the record of our first year of UPA-II is a record
of reasonable achievement. I am the first person to admit that we
could have done more," Singh told a press conference here.
He said one should not be satisfied with "what we have achieved".
"There is always room for improvement and for better outcome. But I
do believe that the record of our first year is a record of
reasonable achievement," he said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday left it to the historians to
judge his legacy, saying he was more concerned about the task at
hand.
"I am not bothered about the legacy issue. I have a task to
accomplish to the best of my ability. It is for the historians to
pronounce judgements (on my legacy)," he said at a press conference
here to mark one year of UPA-II.
Singh was responding to a question on what accomplishment he would
consider as his legacy.
'Stress deficiency
with Pak'
On India Pakistan relationship, Prime
Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh said no progress could happen in
negotiations between India and Pakistan unless the trust deficiency
is addressed.
“It is my conviction that … why we
haven’t been able to make headway in composite dialogue is that
there has been lack of adequate trust,” Dr Singh said.
Dr Singh said that trust deficit was identified as the core issue
when he met his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani in Thimphu,
Bhutan, in April.
“We agreed that the trust deficit is a major problem blocking
progress in the direction of going forward and that it should be our
common endeavor to reduce the trust deficit. That’s when we agreed
that the foreign ministers should meet,” he said.
Naxalism, Biggest
Threat
In the wake of recent Naxalite
attacks, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said that naxalism is the
biggest threat to the internal security of the country, and added
that the UPA Government is determined to tackle this threat.
“If you remember I have been saying
since last three years that naxalism is the biggest threat to the
internal security and it is not correct to say that the government
has not taken serious action to tackle this problem", he said.
“I have discussed the matter many times with all the chief ministers
and I believe that all CMs are of the same view that of the center,’
he added.
“We are determined to squarely tackle
the threat of terrorism and ideological extremism of various kinds.
I have on earlier occasions outlined our approach to tackling
Naxalism,” he said.
“We are working on systemic changes in our national security system,
paying due attention to the modernization and professional
development of the police and security forces, investigating
agencies and the law and order machinery", he said.
Zero tolerance
against human rights violations
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday
said his government was following “zero tolerance” policy against
human rights violations.
“Our government has zero tolerance to human rights violations,”
Manmohan Singh said while addressing the conference.
He was replying to a question related to a specific case of Indian
Army soldiers accused of a civilian murder in 2000 in Jammu and
Kashmir.
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