Amit Shah said in Assam, the decadal growth rate of Muslim population in 2011 census was 29.6% and added, “This is not possible without infiltration.”
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- Oct 11, 2025 11:44 am IST
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday claimed that some political parties were treating infiltrators as a vote bank and questioned why infiltration does not take place along the Gujarat and Rajasthan borders.
Shah said this while delivering a lecture in memory of Dainik Jagran’s former editor-in-chief Narendra Mohan on the topic “Infiltration (ghuspaith), demographic change and democracy”.
He said infiltration was not a political issue but a national issue, which is a threat to democracy.
The opposition says it is the responsibility of the Centre to stop infiltration as the Border Security Force (BSF) is under its control, but there are certain areas on the border which cannot be fenced due to topography, he said.
“Centre alone cannot stop infiltration. State governments protect such infiltrators as some parties see a vote bank in them,” he said.
The minister asked if a person illegally enters the country and the district administration fails to identify them, then how can infiltration be stopped? He said that when a person does not understand the difference between a refugee and an infiltrator, they are deceiving their own soul.