Rajnath Singh sets 5-yr time to resolve Kashmir, terror

“There are a lot of problems, terrorism, naxalism, Kashmir problem. Much is not needed to be said about these problems. But I can assure you this much that by 2022, we have pledged to create a ‘new India’...So a solution will be found to all these problems before 2022. We want to assure the countrymen on this,” he said.

Singh was addressing a programme titled ‘Sankalp se Siddhi - New India Movement (2017-2022) Naye Bharat kaa nirmaan’. On the occasion, he administered oath to the gathering for making India ‘Swachh’ (clean), povertyfree, corruption-free, terrorfree, communalism-free and casteism-free.

“If people could take (Quit India) pledge in 1942 and get freedom in 1947, then why is it so that after 70 years of Independence, India is not that self-reliant which it should had been?“I would congratulate Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking a pledge to create a ‘new India’ before the country celebrates its 75th year of freedom,” he said. He said Mahatma Gandhi understood the importance of cleanliness and had made it a campaign but it is Modi who gave it the shape of a mass movement.