Amit Shah's 'termite immigrant' comment gets criticized by Bangladesh
BJP President Amit Shah's choice of words, while speaking about illegal immigrants in India, has not gone down well with Bangladesh. The country's Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu called it an 'unwanted remark'. At a rally in Rajasthan, Shah had equated Bangladeshi immigrants to 'termites' and said they needed to be removed from the county's electoral rolls. He was speaking about Assam's NRC.
Bangladeshi minister isn't happy with Shah's remark
Speaking to NDTV, Hasanul said Shah's remarks were unwanted. He said, "I hope he knows no Bangladeshis are staying in India." He claimed not all Bangla speaking people living in India are Bangladeshis. "We do not give any importance to his statement as it is not an official Indian government version," he added, and hoped Indian government would 'inform' Shah.
Minister says NRC is India's internal matter, relations are excellent
"Bangladesh-India relations are excellent. Our foreign ministry will not take it up with India's foreign ministry. At the moment we are not concerned about any situation within the states. It is an internal matter, PM Modi is handling it very nicely," said Hasanul.
Shah said illegal immigrants took our food, jobs, terrorized nation
Notably, a confident Shah had said that if BJP comes to power again in 2019, all illegal immigrants would be thrown out. "These crores of illegal immigrants are like termites and they are eating the food that should go to our poor and they are taking our jobs," Shah said. He added the immigrants carried bomb blasts in the country and killed 'our people'.
Repeating his words, Shah claimed 100 crore infiltrators live here
Shah repeated the same stand in Delhi on Sunday and claimed whenever action was taken against illegal immigrants, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, spoke in their favor. "100 crore infiltrators have entered our country and are eating the country like termites. Should we throw them out or not?" Shah said. He asked what was more important-protecting human rights or people.
