New Delhi: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the UPA government is committed to create the Telengana state according to its election promise.
"The Government is committed to create the Telengana state. We will try to develop a consensus on this before taking any step," the PM told reporters in reply to a pointed question during his second press conference as PM in 20 months.
Expressing concern over the problem of Naxal violence in many parts of the country, the PM said the government would face the menace boldly.
He underlined the need of land reforms and strengthening the police forces.
"While violence is to be condemned and will be faced boldly by our police forces, we will also address the root causes of this alienation - chronic poverty, illiteracy and landlessness," the Prime Minister said.
He said the government has improved national security environment at home.
"We have brought peace and security to the Northeastern region, to Jammu and Kashmir and to various troubled regions," he said, adding the Government was talking to all sections of people "outside the mainstream of political life with a view to bringing them around to a peaceful resolution of problem."
"We have done this without compromising on our national interests," the Prime Minister said.
"We will defeat terrorism," the PM asserted. He said the people had time and again shown that political power in India 'flows only from the ballot box and not from the barrel of the gun'.
(With PTI inputs)
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