JKNPP demands immediate deportation of Rohingya, Bangladeshis from Jammu

JAMMU: JKNPP activists on Sunday staged a protest here, seeking immediate deportation of illegally settled Rohingya and Bangladeshi nationals in Jammu and Kashmir winter capital. Led by Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh, over a dozen party activists assembled at the Exhibition ground and held a demonstration to press for early deportation of the foreign immigrants.

They burnt an effigy of the Centre alleging that it had failed to evict these unlawful foreigners and raised slogans ‘Chodho Hamara Jammu Pradesh, Rohingyas Jaao Bangladesh' and ‘Rohingyas, Bangladeshis go back'.

The natives of Myanmar and Bangladesh have already been identified in Jammu city and its adjacent areas, and as such they should be immediately deported from Jammu and Kashmir, Singh said.

“Don't pass statements, just act... Do not test the patience of the nationalist Dogras. Deport them (Rohingyas and Bangladeshis) otherwise the nasty situation could lead to devastating socio-political conflict between the hosts and the unlawful foreigners , the JKNPP leader warned.

Claiming that the people were sick of the stereotype statements issued by Central leaders, Singh alleged while the Rohingyas and Bangladeshis were settled in Jammu during the Congress-nc rule, the BJP had been hand in glove with its erstwhile ally PDP in providing them all kinds of civic amenities to settle them in and around the city under a deep rooted conspiracy to reduce Dogras to minority.