GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat was mired in communal riots until the Congress was in power but nobody dared to trigger a riot after Narendra Modi became chief minister, BJP national president Amit Shah said on Friday, raising the pitch against the opposition in the state where assembly election is due later this year.“Narendra Modi Sarkar aaya pachhi koi Aaliya Maaliya Jamaliyani himmat nathi Gujaratni andar kaumee tofano karwanu (After Narendra Modi government came in no Aaliya Maaliya Jamaliya dared to orchestrate a communal riot in Gujarat),” Shah said at Anaval in Surat district.He was addressing the page presidents, responsible for reaching out to voters of a page each of the electoral roll, of eight districts of southern Gujarat. Earlier, he said, there used be tension during the Rath Yatra in Ahmedabad.“In the morning we used to call up the area and ask ‘Aaje aava jevu chhe ne? (Is it conducive to come today)?” Things changed after Modi became CM, Shah said. “May it be Narendrabhai’s government or Anandiben’s or the ongoing Vijaybhai’s government, curfew has become a thing of the past in Gujarat,” he said. In a scathing attack on the Congress, he said that while the Congress benefited from the tribal vote bank in Gujarat that stretches from Ambaji in the north to Umargam in the south, with a population of more than 50 lakh, the party has given nothing but empty promises.Ever since Modi launched the Banvandhu Kalyan Yojana for the tribals in the state, Shah said Rs 57,000 crore has been spent for the welfare of the community. Besides, he said, the state government has given 13 lakh acres of land to the tribal people. Shah listed various other achievements of the erstwhile Modi government in the state, including the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, which, he said, has become a model that many other states have followed. The incumbent government, he said, has set an example as a government that takes decisions fast.Exhorting party workers to thoroughly uproot the Congress in the forthcoming election and ensure that the BJP wins 150 seats in the 182-member assembly, Shah said that the Congress is only dreaming of winning Gujarat. The BJP chief also took a dig at the Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi “Rahul baba is back from a vacation. He is asking what has BJP given to this country,” Shah said, adding that while the list is very long, to begin with the BJP has given the country a PM who can speak.