AGENCIES ITANAGAR, May 21: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday reiterated that the Centre was committed to bringing peace and development in North Eastern states, while asserting that the Narendra Modi-led dispensation was working to make the North-East "peaceful and free from controversies". He said this while addressing the 'Swarn Jayanti Samaroh' (Golden Jubilee celebrations) of Ramakrishna Mission School, Narottam Nagar at Deomali in Tirap district. "Ever since the Modi Government has come to power we have drawn a development agenda for North East. The first and foremost agenda was not only to protect NE culture, languages, dances, songs, food habits but to promote and bring them to all corners of the country. Second, to give the NE youth such a platform to enable them compete with the youth of world over, by ending all controversies, and to build NE "controversy-free, peaceful, militancy-free as well as free from armed rebellion, and the third agenda is to take NE states to the top of the list of most developed states of the country," Shah said.
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