A decade under Modi: Violence dips in Kashmir, turf lost to China and a civil war in Manipur

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Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019, national security was on top of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s agenda. While making a bid for power in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party promised an overhaul of national security, arguing that the Manmohan Singh government’s “lack of a strong and visionary leadership” had failed to protect the country. When the Narendra Modi government stood for re-election in 2019, national security was arguably its most important plank, especially after the bombing raids inside Pakistan’s Balakot in February 2019. “We will firmly continue our policy of ‘zero tolerance’ against terrorism and extremism,”...