‘Illegal immigrants’ snatched jobs from youth in India, says Amit Shah

SHIVPURI: BJP president Amit Shah Tuesday said “illegal infiltrators” took away jobs of youths in the country and alleged that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and other opposition parties had opposed the NRC when 40 lakh such settlers were identified under the exercise.

Addressing a convention of BJP workers at Polo Ground here, Shah said the BJP governments would “drive each and every infiltrator out of the country” after winning elections in 2018 and 2019. Taking a dig at Gandhi, Shah said he should “stop daydreaming” about the Congress coming to power after elections. Referring to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam, he said the BJP would drive each of the “illegal infiltrators” out of the country as the party stands for national security and rights of Indians.

“When the NRC identified 40 lakh illegal migrants in Assam, Rahul baba and (other) parties raised a hue and cry and opposed the exercise,” Shah said, adding that the youths of the country lost their jobs to the illegal immigrants.

“These migrants took away the jobs of our youths. They (opposition parties) lacked con- cern for our youths and for the hunger of the people of this country. We will drive each infiltrator out after winning elections in 2018 and 2019,” he said.

Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in the next two months in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram.

While first three of the above states are currently ruled by the BJP, the Congress is in power in the northeastern state. Telangana was ruled by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti before chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao dissolved the assembly. Lok Sabha elections are slated to be held next year.