India will make enemies pay heavy price: Shah

New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that the Narendra Modi government had sent a strong message to the world that no one could meddle with India’s borders and defence forces, asserting that those who dared to do this would be made to pay a heavy price.

“Any country’s respect depends on how it protects its borders and for any sovereign country, there can’t be anything bigger than the security of its borders. Economic development is necessary; infrastructure is necessary; good health and educational institutions are important. But when the borders are not secure, these have no significance. The Modi government has sent a strong message to the whole world with surgical strikes and air strikes that anyone who fiddles with India’s borders and defence defence will be made to pay a heavy price,” Shah said at the Times Now Summit, while citing the cross-border surgical and air strikes that India had undertaken after Pathankot and Pulwama terror attacks in 2016 and 2019.