Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused Communist parties and Congress of treating the poor as vote banks and opined that if Kerala has a future then it is under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
While addressing a BJP SC conference here, Shah said, “Congress is vanishing from the country, the world is getting rid of communist parties. If Kerala has a future, it is BJP.”
“Congress party and the Communists never worked for the welfare of the Scheduled Tribes & the poor. They treated them as mere vote banks,” he added.
Amit Shah inaugurated the 30th southern zonal council meeting of the south Indian states and Union Territories in Thiruvananthapuram.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Ministers and Ministers of other southern states – Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana – and Lieutenant Governors of the southern Union Territories of Puducherry, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands took part in the meeting.
The council meeting discussed matters of interest among the states and also between the states and the central government.
Amit Shah was greeted by a large crowd of BJP members, workers and supporters outside the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport holding party flags and braving the rain.
The Union Home Minister for a brief moment waved to his supporters and party workers, who shouted ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ and ‘Jai jai BJP’ slogans, from atop an open jeep after coming out of the airport.
