{"id":186055,"date":"2023-11-20T07:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/?p=186055"},"modified":"2023-11-20T07:41:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:41:30","slug":"assam-rifles-is-probably-the-best-fighting-force-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/india\/assam-rifles-is-probably-the-best-fighting-force-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Assam Rifles is probably the best fighting force in the country’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Assam Rifles have prevented a large number of genocides and killings.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday, November 16, 2023, PTI reported that militants in Manipur triggered a low-intensity IED (Improvised Explosive Device) blast under an Assam Rifles mine-protected vehicle in the state’s Tengnoupal district.<\/p>\n

Soon after triggering the IED, the gunmen fired indiscriminately at the Assam Rifles vehicle. None of the Assam Rifles soldiers were injured.<\/p>\n

In the continuing intra-tribal conflict in Manipur, certain Meitei groups accused the Assam Rifles for siding with the Kukis. In an unprecedented move, the Manipur police filed an FIR against the Assam Rifles for obstructing their duties and accused them of allowing Kuki militants to flee.<\/p>\n

The Assam Rifles, which functions under the Union home ministry, strongly condemned the fabricated allegation to malign its image.<\/p>\n

“Assam Rifles carries out its duties with courage, impartiality and more importantly as an example to the rest of the country,” says Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan<\/strong>, former director general of the Assam Rifles, the largest paramilitary force in the country.<\/p>\n

The Assam Rifles is responsible for counter insurgency, border security and maintaining law and order in the North East.<\/p>\n

“It is disheartening for men who shed their blood serving in North East to have FIRs filed against them by the state police and to be asked for their identity cards by the Meira Paibis in Manipur,” says the general.<\/p>\n

“This is extremely dangerous for the uniformed forces,” says the distinguished officer, a third generation military officer who served nearly 15 years in the North East.<\/p>\n

General Chauhan was chairman of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group to ensure peace in the North East after retirement from the Indian Army in 2018.<\/p>\n

He has vast experience in conducting counter terrorist operations both in Kashmir and the North East, and served as DG of the Assam Rifles for 16 months.<\/p>\n

In the concluding part of his interview to Rediff.com<\/strong><\/em>‘s Archana Masih<\/strong>, General Chauhan says the Assam Rifles has the most difficult task amongst all Central Armed Police Forces and has discharged its duties exceptionally well.<\/p>\n