BJP’s National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya in a set of bizarre statements said that the workers employed at his house were probably Bangladeshi immigrants. The politician arrived at this conclusion because he only saw them eating poha, a flattened rice dish. This had him suspecting them of being illegal immigrants and he went on to dismiss them from their duties. Poha-eating netizens are now thoroughly confused about a dish most of India has been eating for breakfast since generations. Yes, he got heavily trolled!

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In a recently held pro-CAA seminar, BJP politician Kailash Vijayvargiya was delivering a talk about the act. He derailed to go on and narrate an incident at his home. Apparently a bunch of construction workers employed to install a room in his home were seen eating poha a lot. The minister is now sure that they are Bangladeshi immigrants. As per reports in Aaj Tak, Vijayvargiya said that they had “strange” eating habits.

“When a new room was being added at my house recently, I found eating habits of some of the workers "strange" as "they were eating only `poha'" - Kailash Vijayvargiya (translated from Hindi)

He went on to mention that he hasn’t filed any complaints against the workers and that he only means to warn people of immigration. The workers stopped working on the project after he got suspicious. Twitter is very confused about this latest addition to the weird claims politicians make. Twitterati first responding by calling him out for judging people based on what they eat and then with reference to the origins of poha. The dish is way too common in India!

Is Poha not indian ? https://t.co/7LTFH7aMor — Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) January 24, 2020

Poha toh main bhi daily khata hoon but do not understand how Poha is connect with Bangladesh ? — Abhishek Mishra (@Abhishek_Mshra) January 23, 2020

Errm. *looks at breakfast plate laden with poha* https://t.co/sMeNkLIOFt — Kiran Manral (@KiranManral) January 24, 2020

Isn’t poha literally a typical Maharashtrian dish https://t.co/b6rF0bAu3v — feminist killjoy (@Saisailu97) January 24, 2020

Now you can trace them by the food they eat? #Poha https://t.co/zyn5hDznYM — Ravinder Singh (@_RavinderSingh_) January 24, 2020

If eating poha is a proof of being Bangladeshi, then half of India, including my family, is Bangladeshi! https://t.co/VmspQnpYbW — nikhil wagle (@waglenikhil) January 24, 2020

By this logic Indori and Punekars are also Bangladeshi. What a tool. — अंशुल (@Ghair_Kanooni) January 24, 2020

I wonder whether this man has heard of Krishna and Sudama .... and the story of the gift of poha. https://t.co/ZXV74PbayQ — Harini Calamur (@Calamur@mastodon.social) (@calamur) January 24, 2020

This means you are not paying them well, they could only afford 'poha.' It might sound strange to you,but in Bengal, we don't call it poha! https://t.co/MNyHuxzq5k — vijaita singh (@vijaita) January 24, 2020

Really strange that construction workers in Indore were consuming Poha - a staple & cheap food of Madhya Pradesh -easily available too -

and then we wonder what happened to the Indian growth story - https://t.co/sZhG9od7Uu — Yasmin Kidwai (@YasminKidwai) January 24, 2020

If not Poha, what else you expect labourers to bring with them - Butter chicken? — Ravinder Singh (@_RavinderSingh_) January 24, 2020

I was planning to have poha today. But now after seeing this tweet, I will have aaloo parantha with butter and pachrangi achaar. I love pyaz mirch ka parantha but then that is another story in itself #CAA_NRC https://t.co/03vRjqE9Vs — Snehesh Alex Philip (@sneheshphilip) January 24, 2020

Presently politics is heading into a divisive space and with every new CAA address, things are getting weirder. During the Anti-CAA protests, a lot of violence ensued with identifying people from their clothes, the education institute they are associated with or the area they live in and food is something that has always been a subject of disagreements right from the beef ban to the mob-lynchings. This statement by itself sounds like a joke but a high-ranking BJP politician just linked poha to illegal Bangladeshi immigrants so we’re guessing he asked for netizens relentless trolling!

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