40 Lakh Illegal Intruders Detected In Assam: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI: Even as the nationality of 40 lakh people in Assam are yet to be ascertained, BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday has claimed that his government has detected “40 lakh illegal foreigners in Assam.”

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought NRC; around 40 lakh “illegal intruders” have been detected but Rahul ‘baba ki’ company (Rahul Gandhi and his team) – Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati — everyone has been raising hue and cry, why they have been deported, where they will go, what will happen to their human rights…Are these intruders their cousins? When they indulged in terrorist attacks by bombings and all, what happened to their human rights,” said Amit Shah while addressing an election rally at Sangli in Maharastra.

Interestingly, Amit Shah’s statement regarding 40 lakh “foreigners” came at a time when the National Register of Citizen (NRC) update work is under process.

In the draft NRC names of 40 lakh applicants were excluded forcing the people to knock the door of the Supreme Court. However, leaders cutting across party lines have no hesitation to use this statistical figure for their vote bank politics in the Lok Sabha election.

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