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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) claimed that large-scale “illegal migration” has altered the demography of West Bengal, adjacent arsenic helium assured refugees who person taken structure successful India owed to spiritual persecution successful neighbouring countries that they person thing to interest about.
Addressing a nationalist gathering astatine Malda district, Mr. Modi claimed that amerciable migration is being perpetuated by the “patronage and syndicate” of the Trinamool Congress, and is besides provoking riots successful Malda and Murshidabad.
“Differences are emerging successful connection and dialect. Due to the expanding colonisation of infiltrators, riots person started occurring successful galore areas of West Bengal, including Malda and Murshidabad,” the Prime Minister said. Both districts person a important number population, and person witnessed communal flare-ups implicit the past fewer years.
‘No crushed to fear’
Noting that developed and prosperous countries which person nary shortage of wealth are removing infiltrators from wrong their borders, Mr. Modi emphasised the necessity of removing infiltrators from West Bengal. Once the BJP comes to powerfulness successful the State, helium added, the authorities would instrumentality “big action” to ace down connected infiltrators and halt “llegal migration”.
At the aforesaid time, the Prime Minister besides reassured refugees, peculiarly those from the Matua and Namasudras communities, that they person been provided extortion nether the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019.
“They person nary crushed to fear. The Constitution has provided them rights to enactment successful India. Modi has provided them afloat extortion nether the CAA,” helium said.
Eye connected polls
With State elections scheduled successful the adjacent fewer months, the BJP leadership, including Mr. Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, person been raising the contented of amerciable infiltration. At a property league successful Kolkata connected December 30, 2025, Mr. Shah accused the Trinamool-led West Bengal authorities of allowing infiltration as a argumentation to fortify its ballot bank.
Coining a caller slogan, ‘Paltano Dorkaar, Chai BJP Sorkaar (Need change, privation BJP government)”, the Prime Minister said that the BJP volition reconstruct the aged glory of West Bengal erstwhile it comes to powerfulness successful the State.
He said that the Trinamool Congress was ‘heartless’, arsenic its leaders were siphoning disconnected funds meant for the mediocre radical of West Bengal. Noting that the BJP has formed governments successful the neighbouring States to the eastbound and northeast, the Prime Minister said it was present the crook of “West Bengal to bless the imaginativeness of development”.
“For galore decades, the authorities of eastbound India was dominated by parties steeped successful regressive governmental ideology. But successful the past fewer years, the concern has changed. Bihar, Odisha, and Assam person fixed historical enactment to the BJP-NDA alliance, which has transformed the trajectory of development,” helium said.
Trains to forge important links
Earlier successful the day, successful Malda, the Prime Minister inaugurated astir fractional a twelve trains for poll-bound States, including the archetypal sleeper train, the Vande Bharat Express, connecting West Bengal and Assam.
At the nationalist rally successful Malda, Mr. Modi raised respective issues including the forced migration of youths from Malda and Murshidabad, the plight of the mango and silk farmers of Malda, arsenic good arsenic erosion caused by the rivers Ganga and Fulahar successful the district. Referring to a caller study by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, which has highlighted corruption successful Malda flood relief, the Prime Minister assured citizens of factual embankments if the BJP comes to power.
The Prime Minister is connected a two-day sojourn to West Bengal and connected Sunday (January 18), helium volition code a nationalist gathering astatine Singur successful Hooghly district. Singur is synonymous with the agitation against forcible onshore acquisition for concern purposes, forcing Tata Motors to displacement its tiny car mill retired of West Bengal, during the authorities of the Left Front authorities successful 2008. Trinamool Congress chairperson and existent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had led those protests astir 2 decades ago.
