C’garh polls: Shah asks Rahul to clear stand on Raj Babbar's Naxalism remark
Latching on to the remark of Congress leader Raj Babbar on the Naxal movement in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, BJP chief Amit Shah on Sunday asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi to make clear his party's stand on Naxalism.
Shah also claimed that Babbar had described Naxalism as a "revolution".
Addressing a public meeting in Ambagarh Chowki town in Rajnandgaon district, Shah said, "A Congress leader yesterday described Naxalism as a revolution and said that Maoists were engaged in revolution.
"I want to ask the Congress chief to make his stand clear on Naxalism. Your leader called it a revolution. What is your stand?"
Shah was referring to the remarks made by Uttar Pradesh Congress president Raj Babbar during a press conference held in Raipur on Saturday, when he had said Naxals had launched a "revolution" which cannot be stopped through guns, and the menace should be resolved through talks, reports PTI.
When Babbar was asked whether he was suggesting Naxals were revolutionaries, he had said, "I want to clarify that I said the issue can be solved through talks with those who call themselves revolutionaries by indulging in acts of terrorism."
On Sunday, the BJP chief
Shah was referring to the remarks made by Uttar Pradesh Congress president Raj Babbar during a press conference held in Raipur on Saturday, when he had said Naxals had launched a "revolution" which cannot be stopped through guns, and the menace should be resolved through talks.
campaigned in Khujji Assembly constituency, which will go to polls in the first phase on November 12.
"Revolution does not come through Naxalism. Revolution does not come by indulging in the act of violence and by bullets or bombs (but) revolution takes place when cattle were distributed to poor women to bring white revolution and milk revolution," Shah said.
He hailed Raman Singh, who is seeking a fourth straight term as chief minister, for "bringing revolution" in the state through welfare measures.