A BJP MLA has threatened Rohingyas and Bangladeshi immigrants with shooting if they do not leave India “respectfully.”
BJP Telangana MLA Raja Singh, according to ANI news agency, said: “If these Rohingyas and Bangladeshi illegal immigrants do not leave India respectfully, then they should be shot & eliminated. Then only our country will be safe.”
The statement comes at a time when there is growing anxiety among people in eastern state of Assam, where National Register of Citizens draft list has left over 40 lakh people, mostly Muslims.
Singh has recently said incidents of lynching will not stop till the time cow gets the status of ‘Rashtra Mata’.
“Till cow is not accorded the status of ‘Rashtra Mata’, I feel the war for ‘gau raksha’ (cow protection) will not stop even if ‘gau rakshaks’ (cow protectors) are put into jails or bullets are fired at them,” Singh had said.