Every infiltrator to be detected, deported to their countries: Amit Shah at Bihar rally

Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah on Saturday criticised the Opposition INDIA bloc for opposing the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar and said that every “infiltrator” would be detected and deported to their countries, PTI reported.

Addressing a public rally in Khagaria district, Shah said: “Let Rahul Gandhi launch yatras to protect these infiltrators. It does not matter.”

He said that Gandhi cannot “protect infiltrators by taking out a ‘Ghuspetiya Bachao Yatra’,” alluding to the Congress leader’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar in August against alleged voter list manipulation.

He added: “Every infiltrator would be detected, deleted [from the voters’ list] and deported to their countries.”

The statement came against the backdrop of a crackdown in several BJP-ruled states, where since May, thousands of Bengali-speaking migrant workers have been rounded up and asked to prove that they are Indian citizens and not undocumented immigrants.

In several cases, workers have been declared foreigners within days and forced into Bangladesh, despite being Indian citizens.

During his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the formation of a “high-powered demography mission” to deal with “infiltrators” who, he claimed, were snatching away the livelihoods of the country’s youth.

Modi had said at the time that such “illegals” would be dealt with in a “planned and...

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