Ranchi, Nov. 12 -- Infiltrators grab land in Jharkhand by marrying tribal women and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form a panel to identify them and drive them out of the state if voted to power in the upcoming assembly elections, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Monday.
His comments came as campaigning for the first phase of the polls to the 81-member assembly came to a close.
"We will bring in legislation to prevent the transfer of land to infiltrators if they marry tribal women. We will also form a committee to identify infiltrators to drive them out and reclaim land grabbed by them," he said in Seraikela district in southeastern Jharkhand, while canvassing for former chief minister Champai Soren. Shah also accused the Jhar...