New Delhi:
An ‘intruder’ who marries a girl from a tribal community will not be entitled to land in her name, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in poll-bound Jharkhand.
In jabs at the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress alliance, he said if the Bharatiya Janata Party wins, it will pass a law to stop transfer of land to ‘intruders’ – the reference was to ‘infiltrators’ from Bangladesh, an echo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments – who marry tribal women.
“Infiltrators are grabbing land by marrying our daughters. We will bring a law to prevent 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,” Mr Shah said at a rally in Seraikela.
The attack follows a similar broadside by Prime Minister Modi last week. Mr Modi was speaking in Garhwa where he …