Bangladeshi migrants are termites: Shah
Referring to Bangladeshi migrants as “termites”, BJP national president Amit Shah on Saturday said that every last one of them will be removed from the electoral rolls.
Referring to the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC), recently published in Assam, Shah said, “The BJP government brought NRC and prima facie identified nearly 40 lakh illegal immigrants.”
The BJP government will pick out each and every “infiltrator”, he said. “BJP sarkaar ek-ek ghuspaithiye ko chun-chun kar matdata suchi se hatane ka kaam karegi.”
Shah was speaking at a public meeting in Sawai Madhopur district’s Gangapur before heading for another event in Kota.
He said Congress president Rahul Gandhi is demanding an account of the work done by the BJP but people want him to give an account of what four generations of the Gandhi family have done.
Later, while addressing the ‘Shakti Kendra conference’ of booth-level workers in Kota, Shah said the Congress and other opposition allies may speak in favour of infiltrators by protesting NRC but the Narendra Modi government cannot compromise on national security since infiltrators carry out blasts and terrorist activities in the country.
He said Rahul Gandhi is daydreaming about coming to power in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh but the BJP will retain power in these states.
Targeting the lack of clarity over leadership in the in Rajasthan Congress, Shah asked if former chief minister Ashok Gehlot or Sachin Pilot would be the party’s chief ministerial face in Rajasthan.
Shah alleged that in the fourand-a-half-year tenure, the Modi government has done so much development works which have not been done in four-and-a-half generations by Rahul Gandhi’s Congress.
Attacking Gehlot, he said that Gehlot asks BJP about the development works carried out by the BJP, but Gehlot should first decide whether he or Sachin Pilot is in the race to be the chief minister.
Shah also addressed the Volunteers Meet of IT activists of the party in Kota.
Reacting on Amit Shah’s statement in Kota, PCC Rajasthan Chief Sachin Pilot said, “As far as daydreaming is concerned, BJP has mastered itself in this art and Amit Shah’s statement is based on arrogance on which he operates”.
Pilot also said that the Congress is well placed in all three states in the upcoming assembly polls in Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh.
The BJP Party chief was in Rajasthan earlier this month as well as his party and the Congress gear up for the Assembly elections by the year-end.
The BJP government in Rajasthan is like the unshakeable ‘Angad ka Paon’, he said referring to a character in Ramayana whose foot even Ravana could not move.
The Congress cannot do any good for the country as that party has neither a leader nor a policy, Shah said.
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