India, Feb. 10 -- Union minister and leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, JP Nadda, on Tuesday responded to senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's remark that the government had "stumbled badly" on the deportation of illegal immigrants by US, saying that the deportation process is not new, and it has been ongoing for several years.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president lamented that it was being portrayed that only the opposition parties were bothered about the "inhuman" deportation of the Illegal immigrants and said that this concern of theirs was, however, not there though people have come with restraints earlier as well during the UPA regime.

"The process of deportation is not new and has been ongoing for several years," Nadda sa...