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Amit Shah: Ignorance, dogma, and prejudice

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New Delhi, 25 November 2023

Anis Alamgir

Anis Alamgir is a senior journalist in Bangladesh

( Mr Amit Shah has been a star  campaigner  for the BJP is the  state Assembly elections now under way. During his hectic campaigning he has said many things which are not true and demean BJP's Opponents. He has made several false claims and has also attacked BJP's Opponents, especially the Congress below the belt. But to be chairatable and accurate is perhaps not part of his political philosophy. Here we are reproducing an old  article by a  Bangladesh journalist which tells of Amit Shah's  unkind remarks against a neighbouring country friendly to India. Editor ) 


Disrespectfullyt spreading false propaganda against Bangladesh has become an indecent s tyle 
of some Indian politicians, especially Amit Shah -- unfortunately, he is India’s home 
minister and former president of the ruling Hindu fundamentalist political organization 
called Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While he was talking to Calcutta’s Anandabazar 
newspaper, he lied again: “The poor people of Bangladesh still do not get food, so they come 
to India. If BJP comes to power in West Bengal, infiltration from Bangladesh will be 
stopped.” 
Bangladesh has not formally protested his statement, but in reply to Amit Shah’s latest 
statement, the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh AK Abdul Momen, said: “His knowledge 
about Bangladesh is limited. On the contrary, in some areas, Bangladesh is far ahead of 
India.”
Amit Shah has a long history of making hateful, insulting remarks about Bangladesh. Almost 
every year, he speaks nastily about Bangladeshis. Earlier, at a public meeting in West Bengal 
on February 11, Amit Shah once again made provocative remarks on alleged infiltration from 
Bangladesh to India. He said that if the BJP came to power in West Bengal, “not just people, 
even a bird will not be able to enter the country through the border.”
In 2019, Shah said, Bangladeshis would be found and expelled from West Bengal. In a 
meeting with the BSF in November 2020, he said that people from Bangladesh visit India to 
vote. The border will be sealed so that even “mosquitoes and flies” cannot enter. Among his 
offensive remarks, the issue of Bangladeshis being called “termites” in 2018 was also 
criticized in India.
It is now clear that the BJP has intensified these anti-Bangladesh campaigns as the West 
Bengal Assembly elections have started. Their target is to defeat Mamata Banerjee’s 
Trinamool Congress and seize West Bengal’s power. Due to hatred and persecution towards 
the Muslim community, the Muslim vote in West Bengal is less likely to go to the BJP, 
counting for 30% of the total vote. The most active “Pakistan card” in Indian elections is 
obsolete in West Bengal for the geographical distance. 
The BJP is keen to run the “Bangladesh card” because the two parts of Bengal have a bitter 
history of partition and reciprocal migration, and a sad history of Hindu-Muslim communal 
riots. Even then, language, literature, and common culture have made a historical bond 
between the two parts of Bengal. 
Dhaka has repeatedly said that Bangladesh would accept its citizens wherever they are, if 
India provides a list with appropriate evidence. Amit Shah could not give it, even after 
becoming the home minister, because Amit Shah knows very well that there is no 
Bangladeshi Muslim infiltration in India, which is their headache. 
Why will Muslims in Bangladesh go to India to live as third-class citizens? In India, Muslims 
cannot rent houses in Hindu-dominated areas, do not get high-ranking government jobs, 
and many have to hide their faith even if they have to take lower-class private jobs. In India, 
Muslims are forbidden from marrying and engaging in relationships with Hindus; Muslims 
are murdered for eating beef.

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