Amit Shah vows to expel illegal infiltrators from Assam

Guwahati: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday said that in the next five years, the BJP government will "throw out all illegal infiltrators" from Assam.

Inaugurating the Srimanta Sankardeva Abirbhav Kshetra at Batadrava Than in Nagaon district - the birthplace of 15th-century saint and reformer Srimanta Sankardeva - Shah said the BJP government had already expelled illegal infiltrators from Assam in the past ten years.

Attacking successive Congress governments in Assam, Shah said the party had brought in the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act to "legally settle illegal immigrants in Assam and secure their vote banks".


Shah said the BJP government in Assam had freed over 1.29 lakh bighas of land from illegal encroachment in the last five years.

"The BJP government is committed to throw out all the ghuspethia (illegal infiltrators) not only from Assam but from the entire country. Congress' vote-bank politics to settle illegal infiltrators in Assam has also posed a threat to national security," he said.