Dhaka strongly protests highly deplorable Amit Shah remarks

Indian Union Home Minister Amit Shah

Dhaka, Sept 23 - Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged a strong protest against the "highly deplorable" remarks made by India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah about Bangladeshi nationals during his recent visit to the state of Jharkhand.

Through the protest note handed over on Monday to the Deputy High Commissioner of India in Dhaka, the Foreign Ministry conveyed its serious reservation, deep sense of hurt and extreme displeasure, and called upon the Government of India to advise the political leaders to refrain from making such objectionable and unacceptable remarks.

The Foreign Ministry also emphasized that such remarks, coming from responsible positions against the nationals of a neighbouring country, undermine the spirit of mutual respect and understanding between two friendly countries. - UNB

Indian union home minister Amit Shah said that the BJP will free Jharkhand of ‘Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators’ and hang them ‘upside down’, The Hindu reported on Sunday.

‘Due to fear of losing their vote bank, the JMM, RJD and Congress do not stop infiltration. If you change the government of Jharkhand, I promise that the BJP will send out all the Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators from Jharkhand, one by one,’ he said, reports The South Asian Times.

These comments come at a time when Bangladeshi ministers are expected to meet with their Indian counterparts on the sidelines of the Uited Nations General Assembly.