Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that all the infiltrators in Assam have been identified and all that remains is to deport them one by one, urging voters to return the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power for a third consecutive term to ensure the mission is completed.
“We have identified the infiltrators; now it is time to send them out of the country one by one,” he said at the first of his three campaign rallies on the last day of campaigning for the Assam elections scheduled for April 9 in Patharkandi in the Barak Valley.
He said the BJP has renamed Assam’s Karimganj district as Sribhumi, while the Congress wants to get power through votes of illegal immigrants. “The Congress has made infiltrators the majority community in this region and wants to do so across Assam,” Shah said. “Even if three generations of Rahul Gandhi come here, we will not let that happen. People from this district have been long-time supporters of the BJP… They broke all records this time and ensured that we got all four seats from Sribhumi,” he said.
Shah said that the BJP will return to power in Assam and will win the West Bengal elections as well. “Once the party had governments in both states and Tripura [bordering Bangladesh]“The infiltration will end and the pace of the deportation mission will accelerate.”
Shah said that intruders are taking jobs and food meant for citizens. He added that the BJP government in Assam carried out eviction drives and removed “illegal settlers” from 49,500 acres of government land and forests.
He listed development and connectivity projects in Assam in the last 10 years and highlighted the 31 promises made in the BJP manifesto for the 2026 elections. “We will set up a state secretariat in Barak Valley so that people do not have to go to Guwahati, give land rights to tea garden workers, build AIIMS [All India Institute of Medical Sciences] In Sribhumi, give $“3,000 to all women per month, and build a new airport. We will do all this, but when you go to vote, keep in mind that we need to get rid of the infiltrators. Vote so strongly here that the infiltrators in Delhi are afraid,” he said.
