BJP will deport infiltrators within 5 years if it returns to power: Amit Shah

GUWAHATI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused the opposition of turning infiltrators into a vote bank and said that if the BJP returns to power in Assam in the upcoming Assembly elections, infiltrators will be deleted from electoral rolls and deported from the country within five years.He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “courage, determination and unwavering resolve to liberate the country from infiltrators.”“The support of the state government is necessary to remove infiltrators, which will never be possible if the opposition party comes to power,” he said.He further said that the Electoral Commission was conducting a summary review (SIR) to help identify hackers, but “the opposition leader has launched a campaign against it.”

“The country will definitely be free from infiltrators. Under our government, the country has become free from Naxalism. In the same way, Assam and the entire nation will become free from infiltrators,” Shah said.Shah was speaking at a foundation stone laying ceremony for the Assam Police’s 10th Battalion headquarters at Kachutoli near the city on land that was liberated from encroachers in 2024.“During the rule of the opposition party government, intruders encroached on 174 bigha lands, which have now been freed from their possession by the present Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, and today’s program is being held on that very land,” he said.

“In the same place where security challenges once emerged, the 10th Battalion of Assam Police – which will eliminate those challenges – is now being established,” he said.He added that the territories occupied by the infiltrators posed a major threat to Guwahati, Assam and the entire country and that “the presence of these infiltrators was a serious challenge to the development of Assam.”“During the previous government, infiltrators entered the region and pushed the demographic situation in Assam to a dangerous level,” Shah said.The opposition party bears direct responsibility for several districts of Assam – such as Dhubri, Barpeta, Morigaon, Darrang, Bongagaon and Nagaon – that are dominated by infiltrators.He stressed that Prime Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma liberated nearly 1.45 lakh bighas of land from infiltrators and provided government jobs to over 1.4 lakh people in Assam without corruption and issued a firm pledge, “If our government is formed again in the next five years, we will identify and deport every infiltrator from the country.”Alleging that the hackers had become a vote bank for the opposition, Shah declared that “once our party’s government is formed, within the next five years, we will remove the hackers not only from the electoral rolls but also from the country.”Accusing the opposition of endangering the identity of Assam, Shah said, “By allowing infiltrators in, the opposition party has handed over the fertile lands of Assam to them, damaging the identity of the Assamese community and also endangering its cultural heritage.”