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Lashing out at the Congress for practising vote-bank politics and attempting to consolidate votes by using Pakistani diplomats, BJP President Amit Shah raised strong objection to the alleged meeting of senior Congress leaders with the High Commissioner of Pakistan.
On the Congress strategy of not fielding a candidate against Jignesh Mevani — a dalit leader and independent candidate at Vadgam assembly constituency in Banaskantha — Shah said the Congress knew that Mevani received funds from the Popular Front of India (PFI), an Islamic fundamentalist organisation. .
“The Congress couldn't give him a ticket because of his relations with PFI. Therefore, they allowed him to contest as independent and didn't field any candidate against him as a support to him,” he said. “There is no bigger example of appeasement and vote-bank consolidation,” Shah told reporters here.
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