India is fighting a battle for its identity. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood at the ramparts of the Red Fort and declared war on illegal immigration through a high-powered demography mission, he articulated what many nation-loving citizens have been screaming for decades. Under a well-thought-out conspiracy, India’s demographic fabric is being rewoven, thread by thread, with infiltrators snatching livelihoods, encroaching tribal lands, and compromising border security.

Previous governments and parties now in opposition label this as fearmongering. The reality, however, is starkly different. Changing demography is a crisis that has festered for decades – all with the tacit approval of politicians whose only plank for winning elections is vote-bank and brazen appeasement politics. Even today, some politicians actively encourage illegal infiltration – with the hope that such fence-jumpers will become secure vote banks.

The game changed with Prime Minister Modi’s August declaration, where he made it amply clear that his government would employ an iron-fist approach to combat the menace of illegal immigration. In what can be termed a national response, states are now implementing MHA directives with unprecedented coordination, establishing detention centres, conducting 30-day verification drives, and executing deportations with precision.

Home Minister Amit Shah’s “detect, delete, deport" doctrine has become the cornerstone of this coordinated national offensive. Gujarat alone detained over 1,000 Bangladeshi nationals in a single night. Rajasthan, meanwhile, converted sub-jails into detention centres as suspects multiplied. Assam – which has suffered illegal immigration for decades – intensified eviction drives targeting encroached forest lands. The pattern is unmistakable: a whole-of-nation approach to counter what Amit Shah describes as “deliberate demographic design."

More remarkable still is that this ferocity persists despite the BJP no longer holding an absolute parliamentary majority. Political analysts predicted this would force Modi to temper controversial policies and govern through consensus. Yet on national security matters, particularly illegal immigration, the Centre has demonstrated zero willingness to compromise. The same aggression that defined BJP’s........

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