In the area of internal cohesion and national security, some of the steps taken are the barring of the practice of triple talaaq, introducing a need-based criteria for reservations, peace accords12, 13 to address long-pending regional grievances in north-east India, closing a land border agreement with Bangladesh to address long-festering boundary issues,14 removing Article 370 to integrate Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh with the rest of India, defence administrative reforms culminating in the creation of the chief of defence staff post, the indigenisation of defence production led by private
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