India will identify and deport illegal immigrants from across the country, the i...
NEW DELHI - India will identify and deport illegal immigrants from across the country, the interior minister said on Wednesday, stepping up a campaign that critics say could stoke religious tension and further alienate minority Muslims.
The campaign was a key issue in this year’s general election, won by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist party. Shah, seen as a Hindu nationalist hardliner and a possible future replacement for Modi in the top job, called illegal migrants “termites” eating into Assam’s resources during the election campaign.
A draft of the list released in July last year identified four million of the state’s roughly 31 million people as illegal residents, including many Hindus.
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