Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday credited PM Narendra Modi for establishing peace in communally sensitive State while accusing the past Congress governments of spreading communal riots for achieving political goals.
According to the Home Minister, before the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power and Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister, Gujarat grappled with communal riots, curfews, and with issues like smuggling of narcotics, arms and RDX through international border.
He added that law and order was the biggest issue during the Congress regimes and curfews were frequent during their tenure. He said this while inaugurating various police housing projects in parts of the State from Nadiad in Central Gujarat.
“For many years, Congress worked to make communities fight against each other internally, spread communal riots, and tear apart the law and order.”
The Home Minister in on two-day visit to his home State Gujarat where he visited Dwarka temple and visited a costal police centre in Dwarka and attended a gathering of members of cooperative societies and institutions addressed by the PM Modi in Gandhinagar on Saturday.
On Sunday, he inaugurated the police housing projects and laid the foundation for a mega sports enclave that’s being set up in a 20-acre plot in Ahmedabad’s Naranpura area, which is part of Shah’s Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.
As the State Assembly polls are inching closer, Shah used the opportunity to take on the Opposition party that was last in power in the State in 1995. He said that the people of Gujarat have not forgotten the rule of Congress during which riots, and curfews were frequent and normal.
“Communal clashes were certain during Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra. But after BJP came to power, has anyone dared to attack the Rath yatra? Those who dared do so are behind bars now. BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi as CM started securing Gujarat,” Mr. Shah said.
Along with PM, the Home Minister also visiting the State once a month or even more to dedicate projects and development works and launch new initiatives ahead of the State Assembly elections due to be held in December this year.
He added that Mr. Shah despite being a border State, Gujarat has succeeded in establishing peace and law and order in the State.
Reminding how Gujarat had become a den of smuggling of counterfeit currency, RDX and firearms and narcotics, he said that coastal districts Porbandar and Kutch had become notorious for being playground of smuggling activities during the Congress rule.
“Nobody has dared to disturb the peace in the State although it has a long coastline and shares border with Pakistan,” he said, adding that the State police remains two steps ahead of criminals and Gujarat Police has earned its reputation of cracking terror modules and syndicates of anti-social and anti-national elements.
