India will no longer extend the “son-in-law treatment” to Bangladeshis, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said.
Adhikari made the remarks to reporters Tuesday after an administrative meeting in Kalyani with officials from Nadia, Hooghly and North 24 Parganas districts.
He claimed that a large number of “illegal Bangladeshis” had gathered at the Hakimpur checkpoint in the Basirhat subdivision of North 24 Parganas district.
Addressing them in Hindi, he said: “Run away quickly, otherwise the government will do what needs to be done.”
Referring to “Bangladeshi infiltrators,” he said he did not want to waste public money keeping them in jail and feeding them. They are harming Indians, particularly the people of West Bengal, he said. “The law was already there, but vote-bank politics kept some from using it. I’ll say just one thing: run away quickly. Run away quickly. We will no longer share our food, clothing or shelter,” he said.
“We have told the police, you don’t need to send them to jail — it’s not in the law. The police will directly hand them over to the BSF. Why should they eat on the country’s dime, receive medicine, wear clothes? Are they sons-in-law? Run away quickly!” Adhikari said.
Earlier, the BJP-led government of Suvendu Adhikari in West Bengal ordered the construction of “detention camps” or “holding centers” in each district of the state to detain alleged “Bangladeshi and Rohingya” infiltrators. Similar detention camps have been built in other Indian states over the past year. But in West Bengal, this initiative is being taken for the first time since the BJP came to power.
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