Bharatiya Janata Party President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said that Naxals were opposed to development and added that the NDA government curbed the menace over the last five years.

He was addressing an election campaign rally of BJP Candidate at Allpalli near Aheri in Gadchiroli, a Maoist affected district in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.

The BJP President attacked the Congress over the issue of tribal welfare and asked its leader Rahul Gandhi what his four generations have done for the community during their 70-year rule. He also listed various measures taken by the Central Government for the upliftment of the tribals.