Shah Acted Swiftly To Curb Violence: Centre

Government sources say Home Minister has adopted a ‘hands-on’ approach to deal with situation

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On a day when Congress president Sonia Gandhi called for the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the violence in northeast Delhi, the Union government was quick to rally around him.

While his Cabinet colleagues Prakash Javadekar and Ravi Shankar Prasad reacted quickly to Ms. Gandhi’s statement, accusing her of playing “dirty party politics”, government sources gave out details of Mr. Shah’s “hands-on” approach to dealing with the situation.