New Delhi, Jan 6 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaran has said that militant groups, operating in the Northeast, have realised that violence will never pay and the only way to solve their problems is peace negotiations.
While addressing the 7th Northeast Business Summit, Chidambaran said: "Most militant groups have come to realise that violence will not pay, state will never allow the violence to pay. The state will never allow any violent group to overthrow, overpower the state and talks are the only way to find solutions to their problems."
He also said that the Centre is working in coordination with state governments, to deal with insurgent groups operating in the region through various ways in the last two years.
Chidambaram expressed his happiness with the fact that most of the militant groups were ready to talk and a large part of Northeast was free from conflict.
The Home Minister, however, said there was still some areas of concern that include extortion and occasional kidnapping for extortion.
"Extortion keeps the militant groups going. That is their source of funds I have been saying this with responsibility that these extortion rackets must be stopped," he said at the Summit organised by Ministry of DoNER and ICC.
The Home Minister added that most of the Northeast was today conflict-free and there was no violence in most parts of Northeast as 2011 witnessed a new low in the level of violence where in all states together there were only 627 incidents in which 70 civilians and 32 security personnel were killed.
Chidambaram informed that peace agreements have been signed by the government with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in West Bengal and UPDS in Assam.
The Home Minister said more than 270 ethnic groups living in the Northeast present a picture of diversity and also a picture of conflict. (ANI)
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