New Delhi: The nearest political ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to get rid of the “illegal” immigrant capital if his party wins the elections in a strong appeal of his party’s Hindu constituency.
Interior Minister Amit Shah said that every illegal immigrant coming from neighboring Bangladesh will be removed from New Delhi within two years “if his party succeeded in next month’s provincial elections.
“The current state government is placed on illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingya,” Shah told several thousand audiences at a rally on Sunday. “Change the government and we will save Delhi from all the illegal.”
India has shared an unsafe border with the Muslim -majority Bangladesh at a length of thousands of kilometers, and illegal migration from its eastern neighbor has been a hot button for decades.
There is no reliable estimate of the number of Bangladeshis living illegally in Delhi, a city where millions of people have been searching for jobs from somewhere in India in recent decades.
Modi and Shah’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) critics have accused the party of using the issue as a dog whistle against Muslims so that the basis of its Hindu-national support during the elections. To be trapped.
