‘PM Modi, Amit Shah Are Migrants,’ Cong Leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Stokes Controversy

Chowdhury said that both Modi and Shah are infiltrators as their homes are in Gujarat but they have moved to Delhi.

New Delhi: Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha and MP from Berhampur Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday, stoked a huge controversy as he termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Home Minister Amit Shah as “migrants”, while responding to the proposed nationwide NRC. Chowdhury, who is the member of the Parliament from West Bengal’s Berhampur said that both Modi and Shah are infiltrators as their homes are in Gujarat but they have moved to Delhi. News agency ANI quoted Chowdhury as saying: "India is for everyone -for Hindus, for Muslims and for everyone else. They are creating the fear that they will throw out Muslims. They do not have the capability to do that. But what they want to show is Hindus will be allowed to stay, while Muslims will be sent away.” “Amit Shah Ji, Narendra Modi Ji, you are infiltrators. Your homes are in Gujarat, but you have moved to Delhi,” Chowdhury said while opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. “Aap khud migrant hain,” he was quoted as saying by the news agency. Chowdhury's comment comes at a time when Union Minister Shah is discussing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill with the members of political parties and the civil society organisations from the northeastern states. The Union Home Minister met them on Friday and Saturday while the third meeting is scheduled for December 3. Earlier, Shah had said in the Rajya Sabha that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is needed so that Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Christian and Parsi refugees, who are being discriminated on the basis of their religion in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan, obtain Indian citizenship. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which was passed in the Lok Sabha on January 8 this year, aims at granting citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, who came to India before December 31, 2014. On Friday, after the resulst of Assembly bypollss for West Bengal were declared, Chowdhury had said that people said people of Bengal were scared to vote for the BJP because they thought BJP is planning to implements NRC in the state. “People were scared due to NRC. So TMC got an advantage in the assembly bypolls,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.