India, Jan. 28 -- Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Wednesday that workers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have filed over five lakh complaints with the Election Commission (EC) seeking deletion of the names of suspected foreigners from the electoral rolls during the ongoing special revision (SR) process.

"Our stand against illegal foreigners is very clear. That's why our workers have filed more than 500,000 complaints (during the SR process seeking deletion of names of suspected illegal foreigners). Or else everyone (of them) would have become swadeshis (citizens)," Sarma said on the sidelines of an event at Demow in Sivasagar district.

Targeting the Bengali-speaking Muslim community of Assam, Sarma had said o...