India, March 30 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will be implemented in Assam when the BJP comes back to power. He also reiterated that every illegal immigrant must be sent back. Addressing poll rallies in Sonitpur district's Dhekiajuli and Tihu in Nalbari, he claimed that the Himanta Biswa Sarma Government has "freed" 1.25 lakh acres of land that was encroached upon by infiltrators.

He accused the Congress of trying to protect infiltrators and alleged that when the party was in power, it kept the borders porous "in their greed for a vote bank", thereby changing the State's demography. Shaha said that the Himanta Government will ensure no land remains under their control, the former BJ...