{"id":1787,"date":"2014-04-30T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2014-04-30T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:02:10","slug":"modi-threatens-to-expel-bangladeshis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/modi-threatens-to-expel-bangladeshis\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi threatens to expel \u2018Bangladeshis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Modi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1788\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Modi.jpg\" alt=\"Modi\" width=\"289\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>India\u2019s prime ministerial frontrunner, Narendra Modi, courted yet another controversy when he threatened to deport \u201cBangladeshis\u201d if his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power.<br \/>\n\u201cThey have been given the red carpet welcome by politicians just for votes,\u201d he said at a rally on Sunday in West Bengal. \u201cYou can write it down; after May 16, these Bangladeshis better be prepared with their bags packed.\u201d<br \/>\nTargeting the state\u2019s Trinamool Congress government, Modi said: \u201cYou are spreading the red carpet for vote bank politics. If people come from Bihar, they are outsiders to you. If people come from Orissa, they are outsiders to you. But if some Bangladeshi comes, your face seems to shine. This country cannot run like this. We won\u2019t allow you to destroy the country for the sake of your vote bank politics.\u201d<br \/>\nThe reaction from the ruling Trinamool Congress government was swift and sharp.<br \/>\n\u201cModi does not know history. He does not know that speaking in Bangla does not make one a Bangladeshi,\u201d said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. \u201cModi wants to divide Bengalis and non-Bengalis. Anyone who speaks in Bangla across India is branded a Bangladeshi. This is discrimination,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe people of Bengal will throw him out,\u201d she said. \u201cModi wants to pack off Bengalis from India. Who is he to decide?\u201d she said, adding that Bangladeshis came to India under a pact signed in 1971 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Bangladesh President Sheikh Mujibur Rehman.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/modi-threatens-to-expel-bangladeshis\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s prime ministerial frontrunner, Narendra Modi, courted yet another controversy when he threatened to deport \u201cBangladeshis\u201d if his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. \u201cThey have been given the red carpet welcome by politicians just for votes,\u201d he said at a rally on Sunday in West Bengal. \u201cYou can write it down; after &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}