West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh

KOLKATA: Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said on Sunday 50-70 lakh “infiltrators” would be identified, their names struck off the voters’ list and sent back. He added the government was committed to implementing NRC nationwide and would send back Bangladeshi Muslims living here illegally.

Trinamool secretary general Partha Chatterjee said: “They (BJP leaders) are in a fight among themselves to outdo each other. The more they speak, it is better for us, people will get to know them better. They are teaching us Hinduism as if we need to learn from them. CM Mamata Banerjee has always stood up for people’s rights. In doing so, she has never for once thought about their religion, caste and creed. It is for people’s right she is fighting again. They may try to do politics with religion, but they will never succeed in Bengal. Their fight is about exclusivity, ours is about inclusivity.”

Ghosh’s comments came on a day his party MP Saumitra Khan termed intellectuals who oppose CAA as Baner-jee’s “dogs”, drawing fire from TMC leaders, who said “BJP leaders are trying to outpace each other in mouthing profanities”.

Subodh Sarkar, a recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award, said: “This is the actual language of BJP. Now, it is up to the people to decide.”

Ghosh continued his tirade against eminent personalities opposing CAA and NRC, saying their “hearts bleed for infiltrators”. “What about Hindu refugees? They don’t have any answers. This is double standards,” he said.

