Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said 'Urban Naxals' were trying to gain entry into Gujarat by changing their appearance, but the state will not allow them to destroy the lives of the youth.
The PM was speaking after laying the foundation stone of the country's first bulk drug park in Gujarat's Bharuch district. In 2021-22 financial year, bulk drugs accounted for over 60% of pharmaceutical imports.
The project will play a key role in ensuring import substitution and helping make India self-reliant, the statement said.
"Urban Naxals are trying to enter the state with new appearances. They have changed their costumes. They are misleading our innocent and energetic youth into following them," Modi said in a veiled attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is trying to make inroads into Gujarat ahead of the state assembly polls due later this year.
'Urban Naxal' term is often used by some segments of the political spectrum to describe sympathisers of the Naxalism cause as well as certain social activists.
PM Modi will launch development projects worth Rs 14,500 crore in Gujarat during his three-day tour in his home state, where assembly polls are likely later this year, during October 9-11, an official statement said.
Modi also said when he took over as the prime minister in 2014, the Indian economy was ranked 10th in the world, and it has now come to the fifth position.
He will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of various healthcare facilities worth Rs 1,300 crore in Civil Hospital Asarwa, Ahmedabad, on October 11.
