Coimbatore, May 01: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today said the UPA Government had led the country on the path of development and economic stability, while taking on the problems of cross-border terrorism and internal extremism.
India had managed to tackle cross-border terrorism for the last few years and also the demands for separate states internally, he told Sevadal members here.
The government had succeeded in bringing those seeking separate states to negotiating table, he said, adding that six states were facing Naxal problem, which had to be tackled.
Despite all these problems, Congress with its “people- oriented” policy was able to take the country to development path and economic stability, Chidambaram said, adding the country had recorded an eight per cent growth.
India’s Foreign Exchange Reserves stood at Rs 28,000 crore, he said.
–PTI