NEW DELHI – Rising insurgencies in India have worried Indian Army Chief whoblamed external linkages.
Attempts are being made through “external linkages” to “revive insurgency”in Punjab and if early action is not taken, it will be too late, Army ChiefGeneral Bipin Rawat said on Saturday.
He was addressing a gathering of senior Army officers, defence experts andformer senior officials of government and police at a seminar here on’Changing Contours of Internal Security in India: Trends and Responses’.
Rawat also said that attempts were being made again through “externallinkages” and “external abetment” to revive insurgency in Assam.
“Punjab has been peaceful but because of these external linkages, attemptsagain are being made to revive insurgency in the state,” he said, adding,”we have to be very careful.”
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“Let us not think that Punjab (situation) is over. We cannot close our eyesto what is happening in Punjab. And, if we do not take early action now, itwill be too late,” he said.
Punjab saw one of the worst phases of insurgencies in the 1980s during thepro-Khalistan movement which was eventually quelled by the government.
