India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said no Bangladeshi national has illegally entered into India in the last 10 years, news agency PIT reports.
"We can say that in the last 10 years, no infiltration took place from Bangladesh," BJP spokesperson Swapnanil Barua in BJP told at a press conference in the Indian state of Assam’s Guwahati city.
Barua said, "No infiltration is happening at this moment. Illegal migration happened only earlier.
“Bangladeshis are not migrating to India because of economic reasons as they now go to Europe, Gulf or other developed regions,” he said.
"In Europe or Gulf, they get a minimum wage of around Rs 3,000 per day. In India, they can earn a maximum of Rs 1,000. So, why should they come here," he Barua.
Another spokesperson Mominul Awal said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, if passed, will not bring any new Hindu Bangladeshi into India.
"There is no scope or provision to give citizenship to new people. It is only for those people who are already living here.
Only they will get a scope to apply and the DC concerned will verify their applications," he added.
On Tuesday, (Jan 8), India’s lower house passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 granting Indian citizenship to non-Muslims, who fled religious persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan and entered India before Dec 31, 2014.