Infiltrators threat to Assam, shielded in Bengal, says PM Modi accusing Oppn of vote-bank politics

Kolkata | Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused Congress and other opposition parties, including Trinamool Congress, of pursuing an anti-national agenda and helping infiltrators by opposing the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Addressing public rallies in West Bengal and Assam, the prime minister alleged that Congress and the Indi Alliance are openly supporting infiltrators even as his government has been trying to identify and act against such foreigners.

He further claimed that these parties had earlier opposed Supreme Court of India judgments related to illegal infiltration, arguing that this was the reason behind their opposition to the SIR exercise.


"In Bengal and Assam, Congress has supported the infiltrators. They conspired to change the demography of Assam," Modi alleged at a rally on the occasion of inaugurating the new Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport terminal in Guwahati.

"It is due to this conspiracy that infiltrators have captured lands and jungles of Assam, posing a security threat and jeopardising the Assamese identity. Now, it is the Himanta Biswa Sarma government that has been working hard to reclaim those lands from the illegal infiltrators," he added.

He also accused Congress of resorting to "religious appeasement" to "secure its vote banks" after the Independence.

Modi also alleged that the unity and sovereignty of the country had to suffer due to previous Congress governments' policy of keeping development away from northeastern states. Blaming Congress governments in the past for the state's backwardness, the prime minister said they also failed to stop the violence that continues in the region. "Within eleven years' time, our government is moving fast towards ending the violence in the region," he said. He alleged that Congress used to say why northeast needs better roads, airports and railway, who goes there? For this thinking, Northeast had remained neglected for decades, he added.

The PM also unveiled a statue of Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi, the first chief minister of Assam, at the airport. Addressing a public rally in Taherpur virtually, Modi urged the people of Bengal to vote for BJP in the 2026 assembly polls to help create a "double engine" government to make growth and development flow, and save Bengal from "jungle raj."

He drew the reference of Ganga flowing from Bihar to Bengal and said NDA's win in Bihar has paved the way for an encore in Bengal. "Bihar showed the way for BJP to Bengal," he said.