Ahmedabad, May 21 :    Ahmedabad, May 21:  The chief minister's security adviser in Gujarat, K.P.S. Gill, has claimed that withdrawal of the army from the riot-ravaged state will have no effect on policing and law and order. In an informal chat with reporters at the CRPF guesthouse in Gandhinagar, the supercop said: 'The army is never deployed permanently in such situations to maintain law and order.' He expressed hope that the measures enforced by him would instil confidence among the minority communities. When asked repeatedly about how safe the state and its capital Ahmedabad actually were, the supercop dared a scribe to move around with a knife. 'Why don't you test us and try to move out with a knife?' he asked. 'Peace is a state of mind. I keep telling people, we can only stop the violence ... Peace has to come from the society itself. 'What is more important is that the feeling of remorse should prevail. I call it the Kalinga phenomenon... That needs to take place at the earliest,' said Gill, who also heads the Institute of Conflict Management in Delhi. Gill, however, assured the people against militants, saying they would never get a toehold here as the common Gujaratis would not like to collude with such elements. 'The situation and social mindset in Gujarat is such that there is very little chance for emergence of full-fledged terrorism,' he said. On his relationship with chief minister Narendra Modi, the former Punjab police chief said he was 'getting full co-operation from everyone'. He refused to answer questions regarding his appointment. Asked if Modi had appointed him, as the chief minister now claims, Gill quipped: 'I cannot disclose these things. I will write it in my memoirs. If I tell you everything now, what shall I write then.'