‘Will replicate Assam’s detect, delete and deport model in Bengal to expel infiltrators’: BJP chief
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The Bharatiya Janata Party will replicate Assam’s “detect, delete and deport” model to expel “Bangladeshi infiltrators” in West Bengal if voted to power in the state, PTI quoted party chief Nitin Nabin as saying on Monday.
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Nabin was referring to the identification of suspected undocumented immigrants, the deletion of their names from electoral rolls and their deportation.
The comment came ahead of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, which are expected to take place in April or May.
Addressing a rally in Islampur in West Bengal’s Malda district, the BJP chief claimed that the model will be implemented “wherever these foreigners are eating into the rights of our own citizens”, the news agency reported.
Referring to the recent deletion of voters in West Bengal as part of the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls, Nabin claimed that the Election Commission had taken away the voting rights of “more than 50 lakh Bangladeshi infiltrators” in the state.
On Saturday, the Election Commission published the electoral roll for West Bengal indicating the exclusion of more than 61 lakh voters.
However, the process continues with about 60 lakh “doubtful and pending” cases remaining “under adjudication” based on their objections to their exclusions from the draft rolls published in December.
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