West Bengal CM Adhikari Vows to Deport Illegal Immigrants

Making his intent clear to drive out alleged illegal immigrants from West Bengal, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari Monday said "detection and deletion" from the electoral rolls had already been done, and "deportation" would begin soon. He also said that the state govt had initiated the process for the Census exercise, which he alleged was delayed by the Trinamool govt. "First we detected (illegal residents) in the voters' list, then we deleted (them) from the list, and now the time has come for (their) deportation," Adhikari said at a gathering in Kolkata's Camac Street. However, he did not mention any timeline. Referring to the violence over the state govt's drive against illegal construction in Kolkata's Tiljala area, Adhikari said: "You have seen the action in Tiljala. They have moved the court and they are free to do that. There is no building plan with them and we will not allow such things any more. They will have to pay the price for what they have done in Park Circus. They vandalised a police phari in Asansol. There will be 200% consequences. " Adhikari also said there had been a perceptible change in Bengal in the past few days. "Sikhs are exempted from wearing helmets. Rest of the population has to wear helmets. Loudspeakers should remain confined to religious premises. A lot of work will be done soon," he said. Earlier in the day, the CM held his first public grievance outreach programme - 'Janatar Darbar' - at the Salt Lake BJP office. The programme, scheduled to be held every Monday, will be conducted both at party headquarters and at administrative level. "We have started this programme from the party office. This is a programme where people will speak to us directly," said Adhikari, who was accompanied by BJP state general secretaries Locket Chatterjee and Shashi Agnihotri.