Bangladesh lodges official protest over Amit Shah's Jharkhand rally remark

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh on Monday lodged protest with New Delhi over Union home minister Amit Shah's recent remarks on Bangladeshi nationals during his visit to Jharkhand.
"Through the protest note handed over today [23 September] to the Deputy High Commissioner of India in Dhaka, the ministry conveyed its serious reservation, deep sense of hurt and extreme displeasure and called upon the Government of India to advise the political leaders to refrain from making such objectionable and unacceptable remarks," Bangladesh foreign ministry statement read.
"The ministry also emphasised that such remarks, coming from responsible positions against the nationals of a neighbouring country, undermine the spirit of mutual respect and understanding between two friendly countries," it added.

Amit Shah, while addressing a rally in the Sahibganj district ahead of the assembly election in Jharkhand on Friday, had said, “There is no place for infiltrators in the state. They are marrying our daughters, grabbing land and destroying rich tribal culture and heritage... we will drive each one of them out... Let the lotus bloom here."