Amit Shah questions Congress record on tribal welfare

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday attacked Congress over issue of ivasis welfare and asked its leer Rahul Gandhi what did his four generations do for community during ir 70-year rule.

dressing a poll rally at Aheri in Gchiroli, a Maoist-affected district in eastern Maharashtra, he also said that Naxals were opposed to development and ded Modi government curbed menace over last five years.

Shah, who is also BJP president, reiterated that Congress-led governments did t scrap Article 370 of Constitution due to vote-bank politics.

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Ultimately, it was Modi government that revoked controversial provision that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, said home minister, who spearheed Centre's efforts to invalidate Article 370 in early August.

"Your four generations ruled nation for 70 years, what you did for ivasis?" Shah asked Gandhi at rally in tribal-dominated district.

BJP chief hit out at Gandhi and NCP president Shar Pawar, a Congress ally, for allegedly talking about connection between Maharashtra polls and scrapping of Article 370.

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He asked Gandhi and Pawar to give an account of what y did for district and also for Maharashtra, where Congress-NCP combine was in power for 15 years (1999-2014).

Friday is penultimate day of campaigning in Maharashtra, which will have a single phase polling on October 21 to elect a new 288-member assembly. Results will be anunced on October 24.

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