TMC MP Mahua Moitra’s remark about Amit Shah sparks row, BJP files complaint

A political row has erupted over remarks made by Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, leading to the Bharatiya Janata Party filing a police complaint against her, The Hindu reported.

While the BJP objected to Moitra saying that Shah’s head should be cut off for allowing undocumented immigration into India, the Trinamool Congress said that the remark was not meant to be taken literally.

Speaking to reporters in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Thursday, the Krishnanagar MP alleged that Shah had failed to “check infiltrators” at the borders, and that the Border Security Force reports to the Union home ministry, The Hindu reported.

Noting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly claimed that undocumented immigrants from other countries were entering India and taking away land, Moitra asked whose responsibility it was to protect the borders and stop them from entering.

Moitra on Thursday said that the prime minister, during his arrest from the Red Fort on Independence Day, had said that “infiltrators” were causing demographic changes. “But even as he was saying this, his home minister [Shah] was standing in the front row, smiling and clapping,” The Hindu quoted her as saying.

“If we don’t have anyone to protect our borders, if people from another country are entering every day, if our...

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