Bangladeshi infiltrators would have to go back: Modi

“There are two types of people who have come in— infiltrators and refugees. those who are refugees are our family. It is the responsibility of all of India, whether Gujarat or Rajasthan to rehabilitate them with all respect.

” He claimed that in August 2005, during the UPA I government, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had “thrown a shawl at the chair of the Speaker demanding that Bangladeshi infiltrators be thrown out.”

“You (Banerjee) had then said that Bangladeshi infiltrators have destroyed Bengal and that they were being brought in by the Left for votes,” Modi said.  “What Modi is saying today was said by you in 2005,” he pointed out.

The Gujarat Chief Minister said that on May 6, 1997, the then Union Home Minister Indrajit Gupta of CPI had said in Parliament that over one crore Bangladeshi infiltrators had crossed over to India.