AHMEDABAD: Union home minister Amit Shah while dedicating the police housing, non-housing buildings and sports complex in the city crime branch virtually from Nadiad in Kheda said that he wanted to compare Gujarat before and after Modi and recalled the communal violence, subsequent curfews and protecting borders with Pakistan.
"Though I do not want to talk about the misdeeds of Congress, I have to say on how Congress made the people fight in the name of castes. The Congress instigated communal riots and destroyed the law and order. Earlier times, if a person went for the job on the Relief road (which falls in the communally sensitive walled city area), family would have been uncertain if he would return in the evening," said Shah.
Closure of banks, markets and factories due to the communal riots and the subsequent curfews also affected the economy, Shah said.
"Communal clash was 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 were pushed behind bars and they are now chanting the name of Lord Jaganath," he said.
During the Congress regime, the coastal district of Porbandar had turned into a "playground" for smugglers and mafias, and smuggling of arms, narcotics, fake currency, and RDX through the Kutch border was taking place, he said, adding, "Today, nobody dares to enter even an inch into the Kutch border."
Shah said that despite being a border state, Gujarat has succeeded in establishing peace without any "appeasement drive".
"Nobody has dared to disturb the peace in the state although it has a long coastline and shares a border with Pakistan," he said.
Congratulating the government for making Gujarat the number one state in busting narcotics smuggling the Union home minister said: “Even if the drug mafias have been moving towards Sri Lanka with the drug consignments, our ATS (Anti-Terrorists Squad) held them."
MoS, home, Harsh Sanghvi said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah solved the long pending issues like removal of article 370 from the Jammu and Kashmir, abolition of article 35-A which defined permanent residents of J&K, ensuring the border security and more to that “construction of Ram Temple”.
Sanghvi said that when students of India were stranded in war-torn Ukraine, PM Modi took the lead and rescued all of them at a time when the other countries were still chalking out the rescue plan.
"Remember the time before the year 2002, we have witnessed the curfew for 200 days in a year. Different areas were named after Bhais (goons). Later, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah made their best attempts and abolished all the illegal activities," said Sanghvi.
Sanghvi said that the previous governments did not allow to pass the Gujctoc, but Modi had in 2019 sanctioned the act which helped in curbing the organized crime in the state.
Raising the issue of "religious conversion", Sanghvi said, "Innocent people of Gujarat fell prey to religious conversion, but we successfully prevented those religious conversions."
Sanghvi also hailed "capital punishment" in the crime against women. "We succeeded to take the accused to the gallows including one who killed a girl and another who raped a girl in 27 and 20 days respectively," said Sanghvi.
