Gadchiroli: Union Home Minister Amit Shah attacked Friday the Congress over the issue of ‘adivasi’ welfare and asked its leader Rahul Gandhi what his four generations did for the community during their 70-year rule.
Addressing a poll rally at Aheri here, a Maoist-affected district in eastern Maharashtra, Amit Shah also said that Naxals were opposed to development and added the Modi government has curbed the menace over the last five years.
Amit Shah, who is also the BJP president, reiterated that the Congress-led governments did not scrap Article 370 of the Constitution due to vote-bank politics.
Ultimately, it was the Modi government that revoked the controversial provision that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, said the Home Minister, who spearheaded the Centre’s efforts to invalidate Article 370 in early August.
“Your four generations ruled nation for 70 years, what you did for adivasis?” Shah asked Rahul Gandhi at the rally in the tribal-dominated district.
The BJP chief hit out at Gandhi and NCP president Sharad Pawar, a Congress ally, for allegedly talking about the connection between the Maharashtra polls and the scrapping of Article 370. He asked Rahul and Pawar to give an account of what they did for the district and also for Maharashtra, where the Congress-NCP combine was in power for 15 years (1999-2014).
Friday is the penultimate day of campaigning in Maharashtra, which will have single phase polling October 21 to elect a new 288-member assembly. Results will be announced October 24.
PTI
