Clarify Raj Babbar’s naxalism remark: Amit Shah to Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/Raipur/ Latching on to the remark of Congress leader Raj Babbar on the Naxal movement in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, BJP chief Amit Shah has 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 has 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 Saturday, when he had said Naxals had launched a “revolution” which cannot be stopped through guns, and the menace should be resolved through talks.

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.”