‘United India is Sardar Patel's credit', says Rajnath Singh in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Union Minister of Home Affairs Mr. Rajnath Singh on Friday said that if there was no Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, perhaps, Hyderabad’s merger to India would not have been possible. He said that it is to India’s first Home Minister Sardar Patel’s everlasting credit that he single handedly achieved the merger of 562 princely states to Indian Union with ‘minimum violence and maximum willingness'.
Addressing the IPS officer trainees on the occasion of their passing out parade ceremony at Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad, the Home Minister said that it is for this reason Union Government decided to observe the birthday of Sardar Patel as National Unity Day.
“In a span over two months, Sardar Patel merged the erstwhile princely states to the Indian Union. With a mind inclined to democracy and as unshakable as rock, he was able to forge a lasting national unity through a bloodless revolution,” said Mr. Singh.
Congratulating the IPS officer trainees, who finished their training at the Academy, Mr. Singh said that in the present day a police officers duty is much more than the traditional crime prevention and detection. “Organised crime and crimes committed under the cloak of certain ideologies have to be tackled. Left wing extremism is one of such crimes, and it is active in 26 districts out of 9 states in the country, and it is menace to the nation. It is necessary to bring about qualitative changes in the morales, capabilities, and working methods of the police in order to deal with such crime,” he said.
The minister added that Cyber crime has also become one of the main challenges, and the Union Ministry is taking necessary steps to strengthen Cyber crime prevention Strategy.
He said that all the officers should understand the fact that force alone will not work, but social and psychological skills they earned should be put into practice for the maintenance of law and order.
“Police are the most visible representatives of the state, and I feel that the police can be one of the most meaningful change in society.” he said adding that government of India is keenly looking forward to implement the much lagged modernisation and reforms of police force following the Dharamveer commission recommendation.
At the 67th passing out parade, 128 IPS trainees and 15 trainees from Bhutan, Nepal, and Maldives, completed their training. 19 of them were women officers.
