New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- Ahead of the Vice Presidential elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has targeted the INDIA bloc for nominating alleged "left wing" sympathiser Retired Supreme Court Judge B Sudershan Reddy saying that the latter's judgment on Salwa Judum was the sole reason that Left Wing Extremism, which was on its death bed, managed to survive for over two decades.

In an interview with ANI, Shah also took aim at Rahul Gandhi and demanded that the Congress leader should give an explanation for the Opposition alliance deciding to pick a nominee who "sympathised with left-wing ideology" and whose ruling that "disbanded" the "armed civilian vigilante group" prevented the eradication of Naxals before 2020.

The July 2011 judgment, ...