New Delhi: Amid the controversy over special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar ahead of next month’s Assembly elections, the issue of infiltration keeps coming up time and again.

On Friday, Union Home minister Amit Shah pointed out that the population of Muslims has been increasing and that of Hindus going down in India. ADVERTISEMENT

The reason? “Infiltration from Pakistan and Bangladesh,” Shah claimed.

Speaking at an event in Delhi, the Home minister said that voting rights in the country should only be available to citizens.

“The Muslim population has increased by 24.6 per cent, whereas the Hindu population has decreased by 4.5 per cent. I am telling you this because it hasn’t happened because of the fertility rate. It has happened because of infiltration,” PTI q

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