Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday charged Opposition parties with shielding illegal immigrants, asserting that infiltration had caused a “demographic crisis” in eastern States like Bihar, Assam and West Bengal, making people “worried for the honour of their sisters and daughters”.
Addressing a public rally in boll bound Bihar’s Purnea district, the PM also recalled as how the Congress leaders compared bidis and Bihar. He referred to a tweet by the Kerala unit of the Congress, which was deleted following a controversy.
“The Congress leaders say bidis and Bihar start with B. This is a sheer insult to the State and its people. They will give a befitting reply to the Congress and its alliance partners in the coming days,” Modi said in Bihar, where he launched and inaugurated projects worth Rs40,000 crore. Assembly elections are scheduled in the State in November.
Modi also alleged that Opposition parties like Congress and RJD have been imperilling “security and resources” of Bihar, and the nation at large, by “defending and shielding” infiltrators from foreign countries.
Modi asserted that infiltration had caused a “demographic crisis” in the eastern part of the country, leaving people in States like Bihar, Assam and West Bengal “worried for the honour of their sisters and daughters”.
“This was the reason why I had announced a demography mission from the Red Fort (on Independence Day). But such is vote bank politics that Congress, RJD and their entire ecosystem are busy defending and shielding the foreign infiltrators,” alleged the PM said. “They have become so shameless that they are raising slogans and taking out yatras in support of infiltrators from foreign countries,” said the PM, in an apparent reference to the recently concluded Voter Adhikar Yatra of the Congress.
“But let me tell RJD, Congress and their ilk that the NDA is committed to driving out each and every infiltrator. I challenge leaders who are trying to protect infiltrators to try with all their might. We will continue to flush out infiltrators,” asserted the PM.
The PM also launched the newly developed terminal building at Purnea airport, flagging off the first flight on the Purnea-Kolkata route. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, several union ministers, State ministers, MPs and MLAs were present at the function.
