Political outbidding on Bangladeshi illegal immigrants

Anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric, especially those directed specifically at undocumented Bangladeshi settlers, are not new in Delhi. In the late 1980s, some political parties “decided to politicize the issue to polarize Hindu votes” at the national level by projecting and describing Bangladeshi undocumented immigration as a “demographic invasion”.

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