The Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused the Congress-led alliance's Vice-President candidate Justice B Sudershan Reddy of "supporting Naxalism”. The statement of Shah came on Friday, saying that if Reddy had not delivered the Salwa Judum judgement, the extremist Left movement in India would have ended before 2020.
He then added that with the grand old party’s choice for the VP candidate, Congress’s probability of winning in Kerala has lessened.
"Sudershan Reddy is the person who helped Naxalism. He gave Salwa Judum judgment. If the Salwa Judum judgment had not been given, the Naxal terrorism would have ended by 2020. He is the person who was inspired by the ideology that gave Salwa Judum judgment," Shah said, referring to the 2011 SC judgement on Salwa Judum, during a question-answer session as part of the conclave.
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In December 2011, Justice Reddy of the Supreme Court, in a ruling, stated that using tribal youths as Special Police Officers — whether called 'Koya Commandos', Salwa Judum, or by any other name — in the fight against Maoist insurgents was illegal and unconstitutional, and that they shall be immediately disarmed.
Shah said Kerala has faced the brunt of Naxalism. "People of Kerala will certainly see that the Congress party, under the pressure of Left parties, is fielding a candidate who supported Naxalism and used a pious forum like the Supreme Court," the Home Minister said.
Meanwhile, the ruling NDA has picked Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan, a seasoned BJP leader from Tamil Nadu with an RSS background, as its vice-presidential candidate.
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