AAP’s ‘urban Naxal party’ will bring Maoist threat, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday termed AAP an “urban Naxal party” and said the Maoist menace would emerge in the region if the opposition candidate wins the Valsad Lok Sabha seat.

The Aam Aadmi Party is fighting the Gujarat polls in alliance with the Congress, which has fielded its Vansda (ST) MLA Anant Patel from Valsad. Speaking in support of BJP candidate Dhaval Patel in Vansda, Shah said, “Congress and urban Naxal party AAP have come together to disrupt peace in this tribal region.

Do you want the extortion to start in Valsad? Will you allow Naxalism to take hold in our forest areas?’ “Naxalism and urban Naxalism will start here if their candidate wins,” Shah claimed. Shah alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘misinformation’ about the vaccination drive during the coronavirus pandemic led to the death of many tribals.

“Rahul asked the tribals not to take the vaccine and called it the Modi vaccine. However, both brother and sister (Priyanka Gandhi) secretly took the vaccine at night. They were not ashamed of playing politics in the time of COVID-19.” he claimed.

“Several tribal youth who believed in the misinformation spread by Rahul lost their lives (for not taking the vaccine),” Shah alleged. He said the Congress-led INDI alliance wanted to take away quotas for SC, STs and OBCs and give them to Muslims like it did in Telangana and Karnataka. The BJP will end this Muslim quota and return its benefits to Dalits, STs and OBCs, he claimed.

Taking a jibe at the Congress leader for contesting from the Wayanad and Raebareli Lok Sabha seats, Shah said that unlike Chandrayaan, which successfully landed on the south pole of the moon, ‘Rahul Yaan’ has been in the past had not been launched twenty times. “Sonia Gandhi launched ‘Rahul Yaan’ for the 21st time yesterday but it will fail again,” he said in an apparent reference to the Congress leader who filed a nomination from family bastion Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh on Friday.

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