Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday claimed that while infiltration has stopped in BJP-ruled Assam, it was continuing in adjoining West Bengal because the government there was giving a “red carpet welcome” to illegal immigrants.
Addressing a media conclave in Patna, he also mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for having given up the diatribe on “vote theft”, reiterating that Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls would weed out “infiltrators”.
“It is baffling that the opposition has been getting a bellyache over an exercise launched by the Election Commission, which would weed out infiltrators. I am fully in support of the SIR exercise, which would eventually take place in the entire country,” he said at the conclave organised by ABP News and Hindustan.
Shah, however, bristled when reminded of the opposition charge that if there were infiltrators in the country, the blame ought to be on the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, which has been in power at the …​Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday claimed that while infiltration has stopped in BJP-ruled Assam, it was continuing in adjoining West Bengal because the government there was giving a “red carpet welcome” to illegal immigrants.
Addressing a media conclave in Patna, he also mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for having given up the diatribe on “vote theft”, reiterating that Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls would weed out “infiltrators”.
“It is baffling that the opposition has been getting a bellyache over an exercise launched by the Election Commission, which would weed out infiltrators. I am fully in support of the SIR exercise, which would eventually take place in the entire country,” he said at the conclave organised by ABP News and Hindustan.
Shah, however, bristled when reminded of the opposition charge that if there were infiltrators in the country, the blame ought to be on the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, which has been in power at the … ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
