Indian union home minister Amit Shah said that the BJP will free Jharkhand of ‘Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators’ and hang them ‘upside down’, says The Hindu.
‘Due to fear of losing their vote bank, the JMM, RJD and Congress do not stop infiltration. If you change the government of Jharkhand, I promise that the BJP will send out all the Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators from Jharkhand, one by one,’ he said, reports The South Asian Times.
These comments come at a time when Bangladeshi ministers are expected to meet with their Indian counterparts on the sidelines of the UNGA.
Shah said changing the chief minister or bringing the BJP government in place of the JMM-Congress-RJD combine is not the motive of the election. Voters have to ‘remove the corrupt government’ and bring in a government that will ‘stop corruption’.
‘The change has to be brought by removing the government that is destroying the tribal girls and their culture through intruders. My tribal brothers and sisters go to different parts of the country for employment. Instead of this, a government which brings employment to Santhal Pargana has to be brought in. We do not just want to change the Chief Minister, we want to change Jharkhand,’ Shah said.
Lashing out at the State government, Shah said that Jharkhand was created by BJP prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for tribals, but Hemant Soren’s government has propagated ‘infiltrator welfare’ instead of tribal welfare.
‘Today, slogans like ‘Hindus and tribals leave Jharkhand’ are raised in Pakur district. Only Narendra Modi and the BJP can save this land of the tribals. In our State, the number of infiltrators is increasing in place of tribals, we have to stop this,’ he said.
Shah said earlier, the population of tribals in the Santhal Pargana was 44 per cent, ‘but now it has come down to 28 per cent’. ‘You people should form a BJP government in Jharkhand for five years and I promise that our government will straighten out the Bangladeshis who have infiltrated Santhal Pargana by hanging them upside down.’