BJP filed 5 lakh complaints to delete ‘foreigners’ from Assam voter rolls: Sarma

“Our stand against illegal foreigners is very clear. That’s why our workers have filed more than 500,000 complaints (during the SR process seeking deletion of names of suspected illegal foreigners). Or else everyone (of them) would have become swadeshis (citizens),” Sarma said on the sidelines of an event at Demow in Sivasagar district.

Targeting the Bengali-speaking Muslim community of Assam, Sarma had said on Tuesday, “As per rules, Miyas (the non-indigenous Muslims) should not get to vote here; they should cast their ballots in Bangladesh. To ensure that they don’t get to vote in Assam, we have taken certain measures.”

“Recently I was in Duliajan, where people complained that the number of Bangladeshi Miyas has increased significantly there and in areas like Margherita. You have already witnessed the evictions (of suspected foreigners from government lands) carried out in Golaghat and Sarupathar,” he said.