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The BJP's demographic engineering project unnerves its own state unit.

After May 16, these Bangladeshis better have their bags packed...," then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's words at a rally in Serampore, West Bengal, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2014, had a profound impact in neighbouring Assam. Battling the influx of illegal migrants for nearly half a century, the state rewarded the BJP with seven of its 14 Lok Sabha seats. Two

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