Guwahati, April 3 -- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari appealed to the voters for the return of the BJP government in Assam in the upcoming elections, highlighting the necessity of a crackdown on illegal immigrants and infiltrators in the state.

At a public rally in Guwahati on Thursday, Gadkari stressed that no foreign national can be granted "unauthorised entry" in India. He further added that to ensure the development of the country and Assam, it must be saved from illegal immigrants.

"The foreign nationals who enter our country from abroad, should they be granted the right to vote? No nation can permit such unauthorised entry. Therefore, I have come here to make an earnest appeal to you: we must save Assam, we must save the nation; we mu...