India will identify and deport illegal immigrants from across the country, the interior minister said, stepping up a campaign that critics say could stoke religious tension and further alienate minority Muslims.<\/p>\n
An exercise to identify alien immigrants from Muslim-majority Bangladesh has been going on in the northeastern state of Assam for years, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist-led government has taken it up in earnest.<\/p>\n
The campaign was a key issue in this year’s general election, won by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist party.<\/p>\n
Critics accuse Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of a deep-seated bias against minority Muslims and say the campaign against illegal migrants is aimed at Muslims, and threatens to further marginalise the community.<\/p>\n
The BJP denies the accusation and says it is opposed to the appeasement of any group.<\/p>\n
While reinforcing measures against migrants slipping into the country, the government is trying to bring in a law that would simplify the process of getting Indian citizenship for immigrants from religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries, including Pakistan.<\/p>\n
People in Assam are scrambling to prove their citizenship as part of an exercise to prepare a Supreme Court-ordered registry of citizens in the state. The list is due to be released on July 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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