The Aam Admi Party appeared to support the BJP’s hate campaign, claiming that the communal rioting in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri was caused by “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingyas.”
The AAP claims that the Narendra Modi government has unlawfully settled Rohingyas and Bangladeshis in various parts of the country, alleging that the BJP intends to employ them to carry out riots.
“The BJP’s netas are discussing the Rohingya. The BJP must estimate how many Rohingya and Bangladeshis have arrived here during the last eight years, as well as where they have settled. “We’ll know where the next riot will happen once the BJP announces how many Rohingya and Bangladeshis have arrived and where,” AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said according to Maktoob Media.
“I’d want to ask the BJP two questions. Why did you allow Rohingyas and Bangladeshis to illegally settle in India for the past eight years? We want a large number of these people to settle. Sisodia told reporters on Wednesday, “If you can’t, then go and die.”
AAP’s official handle has shared a video of AAP leader Atishi Marlena in which she claims that BJP has settled Rohingyas and Bangladeshis illegally in India to perpetrate riots.
“The BJP has settled Bangladeshis and Rohingyas across the country to cause riots,” read a tweet in Hindi by AAP’s official handle.
AAP MP Raghav Chadha also blamed “Bangladeshi and Rohingyas Muslims.”
“Sabse zada tadaat me BJP ne ‘Bangladeshi aur Rohingyas’ ko basaya. Isliye basaya hai kyunke unka istemaal karkar dange karayenge,” Chadha said.
Journalists and activists alleged that the AAP is normalising a very dangerous anti-Muslim narrative and is endangering lives of Bengali Muslims through this statements.
“Bengali’s of India are not Bangladeshis. What a disgrace, Atishi,” said AIUDF’s Assam MLA Ashraful Hussain.
“Weird, irresponsible and dangerous statement by AAP leaders, dragging the already vulnerable Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into this equation,” tweeted The Wire founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan.
“This is the sad reality of the Rohingya refugees: they have been targets of violence at home and, apparently, in India too. Why would the Aam Aadmi Party and it’s leaders paint a larger target on the backs of a people already vulnerable to Hindutva hate?” he asks.
“AAP in Delhi is essentially a party for disappointed BJP supporters. It’s not a party for Muslims. After NE Delhi violence, hounding of Tablighi Jamaat, this is the third betrayal. It should be ready for more Chauhan Bangar type defeats,” read a tweet by journalist Aditya Menon.
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