New Delhi, March 30 -- Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday attacked the opposition parties for having made former Supreme Court judge B Sudarshan Reddy their candidate in the Vice Presidential election and condemned his "Salwa Judum" case judgement which was delivered in 2011.

Replying to the debate in Lok Sabha on efforts to free the country from Left Wing Extremism, Amit Shah alleged that the Congress government, which was in power in Chhattisgarh, had "shielded Naxalites".

Amit Shah said after the "Salwa Judum" case judgement, Naxalites targeted and killed "individuals associated with Salwa Judum".

"On July 5, 2011, following a petition filed by Nandini Sundar and others, the Supreme Court, under a bench headed by Justice Sudarshan Re...