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Rajkot: BJP national president Amit Shah on Tuesday termed the Gujarat assembly elections as a fight between Prime Minister Narendra Modi's development agenda and Congress' caste and dynastic politics. "This year's assembly election in Gujarat is not just a fight between two parties or a fight for who will become the chief minister, but it is to decide if 'jaativad' (casteism) and 'vanshvad' (dynastic politics) will win or Narendra Modi's 'vikasvad' (development politics) will triumph," Shah said. "The people of Gujarat have to decide now...will they choose Congress, which had tried to create a caste divide during their rule between 1985 and 1995 by putting KHAM theory into practice or choose the development and stability provided by the BJP government since 1995," Shah said. KHAM denoted a votebank of four communities, namely, Kshatriyas, Harijans, Adivasis and Muslims.He expressed the confidence that people of Gujarat will let BJP continue the journey of development till 2022.Shah further said that the Congress has tried to outsource its campaign and is just indulging in caste politics to win the Gujarat polls. This was Shah's apparent reference to the Congress' attempts to win over Patidars and Other Backward Communities (OBCs).Claiming that terrorists in Kashmir were killing soldiers and people with impunity during the UPA rule, Shah reminded the gathering of Army's surgical strikes conducted during the Modi regime..