Dhaka, Jan. 27 -- Interior minister Amit Shah said every unlawful migrant from neighboring Bangladesh would be expelled from New Delhi "within two years" if his party succeeded in next month's provincial polls.

"The current state government is giving space to illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas," Shah told an audience of several thousand at Sunday's rally.

"Change the government and we will rid Delhi of all illegals."

India shares a porous border stretching thousands of kilometres with Muslim-majority Bangladesh, and illegal migration from its eastern neighbour has been a hot-button political issue for decades.

There are no reliable estimates of the number of Bangladeshis living illegally in Delhi, a city to which millions have flocked...