Nov 24, 2022: Amit Shah: BJP made Gujarat free from Communal Riots
Gujarat witnessed massive communal violence in February 2002, for three days, in certain areas of the State after two compartments of a train, full of Hindu pilgrims, were set on fire at the Godhra railway station in February 2002. Gujarat was known for intermittent communal violence starting from 1969 to 2002.
Rioters in Gujarat were taught such a lesson by the BJP in 2002 that Gujarat has become completely free from communal violence, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah, as he campaigned for his party in the state.
On Friday, Amit Shah said anti-social elements used to indulge in violence in Gujarat as the Congress supported them. When, for the first time, the perpetrators were punished through proper legal processes, painstakingly followed by BJP, they stopped such activities and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was able to establish “permanent peace” in the State.
Addressing a rally in Mahudha town of Kheda district in support of BJP candidates ahead of the next month’s Assembly elections, Shah alleged, “During the Congress rule in Gujarat (before 1995), Congress used to incite people of different communities and castes to fight against each other. Through such riots, Congress had strengthened its vote bank and did injustice to the society, as a whole.”
Shah claimed that Gujarat witnessed riots in 2002 because perpetrators became habitual of indulging in violence due to the prolonged support they received from the Congress. Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for abrogating Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, Shah alleged that the Congress was against it because of its “vote bank”.
The Association of Democratic Reforms, an NGO, managed by a Professor with leftist leanings, has played a stellar role in ensuring that Indians do not take pride in their democracy. This is done by proving that every single party, participating in the democratic processes is painted as a party peopled with criminals. Every political protest is likely to result in infringement of some rule. The ruling parties routinely use police to break such protests through registering cases against those, taking part or organizing such protests. The extremely slow judicial processes in India lead to such cases, continuing for years in the name of every active political worker. These protests must be clearly separated from persons, who have committed heinous crimes like rapes or murders.
However GOI provides support to only ADR for presenting data about candidates before the public. It says that out of 788 candidates contesting for 89 seats of the 1st Phase of the elections in Gujarat, 167 have criminal cases, registered against them, with 100 of them facing serious charges. It forgets to report that none of the cases have been proved since a person, against whom such a case has been proved, may be behind bars and may be declared ineligible for being a candidate in these elections. The data for all parties (Aam Aadmi Party, Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janta Party, Bharatiya Tribal Party) is as follows:
| AAP | INC | BJP (Ruling party) | BTP | |
| %age of candidates with criminal cases | 36% | 35% | 16% | 29% |
| %age of candidates with serious criminal cases | 30% | 20% | 12% | 7% |
Professor Salvatore Babones, of Sydney University, has found that a totally misleading picture about Indian democracy is painted by three well-known international democracy ranking institutions – Swedish V-Dem, Freedom House and Democracy Index of EIU of the Economist- since they depend on the information provided by such leftist NGOs of India. — By Sachin Ashal