India, Oct. 4 -- Tribal communities need security, infrastructure, livelihoods and confidence alongside accountability for past hardships.

Congress and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, during his recent visit to Jagla village in Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat district, interacted with tribal communities and expressed deep concern over the deaths of children in Baiga tribal-dominated areas due to illness, severe malnutrition, malaria and contaminated water, describing it as a "100% failure" of the government. He alleged that "it seems as if tribal families living in the heart of the country have been completely abandoned", with neither the Central nor the Madhya Pradesh government standing with them. But is the entire st...