SILVASSA (DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the previous UPA Governments of failing to allot land to tribal people in those union territory areas “where it had a direct control.”
He also accused the Congress-led UPA Governments at the Centre of not fulfilling its duty of according land rights to tribal people and blaming the states instead for it.
Addressing a public meeting here, he said while it is the duty of the Centre to accord land rights to the tribal people, the previous Congress Government always blamed the states for it.
“Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh saw best progress in giving land rights to the tribals. But the Government of India and the Congress leaders used to instigate the tribals that the Modi Government (when he was the Gujarart chief minister) was not giving land rights to the tribals,” he told the gathering.
He said when he became the Prime Minister, he realised it is the duty of the Centre and not the states to hand over the land rights to the tribals. (AGENCIES)
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