Jharkhand will vote for a new government in a two-phase Assembly election beginning on November 13. The second phase is a week later, and the results will be out on November 23.
New Delhi: An ‘intruder’ who marries a girl from a tribal community will not be entitled to land in her name, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in poll-bound Jharkhand.
In barbs at the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress combine, he said if the Bharatiya Janata Party wins, a law will be passed to stop the transfer of land to ‘intruders’ – the reference was to ‘infiltrators’ from Bangladesh, an echo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments – who marry tribal women.
“Infiltrators are grabbing land by marrying our daughters. We will bring a law to prevent the transfer of land to infiltrators if they marry tribal women. We will also form a committee to identify infiltrators to drive them out and reclaim land grabbed by them,” Mr Shah said at a rally in Seraikela.
This attack comes a week after Prime Minister Modi’s similar broadside. Mr Modi was speaking in Garhwa, where he slammed into Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s administration, accusing the ruling JMM, Congress, and Rashtriya Janata Dal of being “supporters of Bangladesh infiltrators.”.
The JMM-RJD-Congress government has taken appeasement to its peak. These parties are destroying the social harmony of the state. They are supporters of infiltrators. To get votes of Bangladesh infiltrators, they are getting them settled across Jharkhand,” he had said.
Meanwhile, Mr Shah also criticized the JMM for “the way Champai Soren was humiliated and thrown out” and said, “This is not just an insult to Champai Soren but an insult to tribal people.”
