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Shah鈥檚 鈥榯ermites鈥� comment out of context, says BJP
Remarks by India's home affairs minister referring to illegal Muslim migrants as 鈥渢ermites鈥�, were taken out of context, the BJP鈥檚 general secretary Ram Madhav has said.
The remarks by Amit Shah, also a member of the BJP, were made during the 2019 Indian election campaign and have been criticised in a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
But Mr Madhav told Hardtalk's Stephen Sackur: "We have quite a humanitarian sentiment about every person, but after all nations have to safeguard their people, their livelihoods and their economy from illegal infiltrators."
