BJP president Amit Shah, addressing a rally in Seraikela, Jharkhand, on Monday, assured the community that if BJP comes to power in the state in the assembly polls, the party will enlist a separate department to flush out “infiltrators”.
Shah stated that a BJP government will soon enact laws that will reduce the ability of ‘infiltrators’ to acquire tribal women to gain ownership of tribal land.
Shah pointed out that the problem of infiltration is affecting the question of diminishing numbers of the tribal people in Jharkhand. They are grabbing the tribal land by marrying our daughters, said Shah. “We will legislate that no transfer of land to the non-tribals can take place through such marriage and second we will form a committee to identify such anti-social elements, and throw them out of the state and land which belongs to our Jharkhand’s tribal’s.”
Such infiltrators, the minister said, had taken over tribal land and he pledged that any land that was taken under such circumstances would immediately be returned to the rightful owners – the tribes. Shah also alleged that Champai Soren, who was a former Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief minister, was forced to resign because he had spoken against the effects of migration to the tribals. Champai Soren, who later switched to BJP resigned after the present chief minister, Hemant Soren, was released on bail earlier this year.
Shah used the rally to anger the JMM-led coalition government by accusing the ministers and offering stern action against them for corruption charges. He said that “if voted to power, the BJP would target corruption within the JMM by arresting “all the corrupt leaders of the JMM-led coalition.”
These remarks are putting stress on the BJP’s electoral promises of dealing with the issue of infiltration and safeguarding the rights and resources of the tribal population in Jharkhand in the run-up to the polling.
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