Overview
- At a Kolkata press conference, the Union home minister alleged the TMC abets Bangladeshi infiltration and has let it alter West Bengal’s demography.
- He said the state refused land for India–Bangladesh border fencing, framed infiltration as a national-security issue, and asserted only a BJP state government would seal the border.
- He promised a security grid to block crossings and said a BJP government would identify and expel illegal immigrants, while protecting refugees.
- Addressing citizenship anxieties, he told the Matua community they need not fear the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
- The TMC rejected the charges, said land had been provided, attacked the SIR process, and Mamata Banerjee demanded Shah’s resignation.