Not minority Hindus but members of ‘majority’ community are coming to India from Bangladesh: Himanta

Guwahati. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma said that most of the people coming to the state from Bangladesh in recent months are from the “majority community” of the neighboring country, not the minority Hindus there. He claimed that those who are entering India illegally are workers of the textile industry in Muslim-dominated Bangladesh, who are in bad condition after the crisis there and they want to go to Tamil Nadu to work in the same sector. The southern state of Tamil Nadu is ruled by the DMK, a constituent of the ‘India’ alliance. While talking to reporters here, the Chief Minister said, “The situation in Bangladesh has ruined the textile industry there. The majority there are trying to cross the border. They are trying to enter India to work in Tamil Nadu’s textile industry and “the owners of these industries are encouraging them to come for cheap labour”, he said. Sharma said the Hindu minority in Bangladesh was not trying to come here despite facing atrocities, probably because they were “very patriotic”. “They (Bangladeshi Hindus) have behaved in a very mature manner and during the last five months, no Bangladeshi Hindu has come to Assam,” the chief minister said. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working very hard to help create a favourable environment for Hindus and minorities in neighbouring Bangladesh.