How big an issue is infiltration?
Infiltration is a very major issue. It is not that the Trinamool does not accept infiltration. The difference between Trinamool and us is that we make a distinction between the people who have entered this state illegally. We feel that people who have been subjected to Islamic persecution Hindus? Hindus, and there are a handful of Buddhists and Christians also, who have entered this state as a matter of compulsion — as a result of Islamic persecution — are refugees. It agrees with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ definition also. By that definition Hindus and Christians are refugees. Muslims in this case are not subjected to any persecution and hence the Muslims are infiltrators. The Trinamool does not agree with us on that score. What makes you so confident you can get over that difference? We will keep it on the backburner. We won’t act upon it. How do you plan to conquer the leviathan of the CPI-M at the grassroots? The CPI-M has created a very large number of un
