NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that while infiltration has stopped in BJP-ruled Assam , it continues in neighbouring West Bengal, claiming that the state government is giving a "red carpet welcome" to illegal immigrants. Addressing a media conclave in Patna, Shah also mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for dropping the allegation of "vote theft," and said the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls would remove "infiltrators." "It is baffling that the opposition has been getting a bellyache over an exercise launched by the Election Commission, which would weed out infiltrators. I am fully in support of the SIR exercise, which would eventually take place in the entire country," he said at the conclave, as reported by news agency PTI.

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