Undocumented migrants allowed for vote bank: Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday said some political parties give shelter to undocumented migrants because of “vote bank” politics as he backed the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and said only an Indian citizen should have the right to vote and choose leaders.

- HT Correspondent

Delivering a lecture in the memory of former editor-in-chief of Dainik Jagran, Narendra Mohan, Shah also asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party will pursue the policy of “detect, delete and deport” to deal with infiltrators.

The minister said some parties started seeing a vote bank in infiltration, so they gave shelter to the infiltrators. “Our Gujarat also has a border; Rajasthan has one too, but infiltration does not happen there,” he said.

Shah said dividing the country on the basis of religion was a big mistake as it fulfilled the conspiracy of the British rulers. “The BJP has adopted the formula of detect, delete, and deport since the 1950s. We will detect the infiltrators, delete them from the voter list, and deport them from this country as well,” he said.