'Not against Assam's indigenous Muslims'
GUWAHATI, April 3 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was against undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh, but not the indigenous Muslims of Assam.
"Congress encouraged illegal infiltrators to the state and now the party is giving a Hindu versus Muslim angle," Shah said at an election rally in Kaliabor to seek support for ally Asom Gana Parishad's Keshab Mahanta, who is also a senior minister. "I want to make it clear that BJP is against 'ghuspethiyes' (illegal immigrants), but we are not opposed to Assam's indigenous Muslim population," he added.
The present BJP-led government in the state has carried out massive eviction drives in government lands since 2021, calling it a campaign agai...
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