{"id":2800,"date":"2018-09-24T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:00","slug":"amit-shahs-termite-remark-unwanted-says-bangladesh-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/amit-shahs-termite-remark-unwanted-says-bangladesh-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Amit Shah\u2019s termite remark unwanted, says Bangladesh minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior minister of the Government of Bangladesh has said that Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah\u2019s comment describing Bangladeshis as \u201ctermites\u201d and accusing them of \u201cinfiltrating\u201d India was an \u201cunwanted remark\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Shah, in a rally in Sawai Madhopur\u2019s Gangapur on Saturday said that Bangladeshi citizens had infiltrated into India and that \u201cthe infiltrators have eaten our country like termites.\u201d The same comment was reiterated by Shah in Delhi, where he added that if re-elected, the BJP would carry a country-wide exercise to identify the Bangladeshis and send them back.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Information, Hasanul Haq Inu, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/amit-shahs-termite-remark-unwanted-bangladesh-minister\/article25022118.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">interview <\/span><\/a>with <em>The Hindu<\/em>, said Shah wasn\u2019t qualified to speak on India-Bangladesh relations and that the Union home minister Rajnath Singh had assured Dhaka that people who weren\u2019t part of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam wouldn\u2019t be sent to Bangladesh. Inu said that the NRC process was an internal matter of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior minister of the Government of Bangladesh has said that Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah\u2019s comment describing Bangladeshis as \u201ctermites\u201d and accusing them of \u201cinfiltrating\u201d India was an \u201cunwanted remark\u201d. Shah, in a rally in Sawai Madhopur\u2019s Gangapur on Saturday said that Bangladeshi citizens had infiltrated into India and that \u201cthe infiltrators have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}