Renegade RSS Leader Moves Supreme Court Seeking Deportation Of Rohingyas 

New Delhi: Former BJP leader and Hindutva ideologue K.N. Govindacharya on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking deportation of Rohingya Muslims, expressing apprehension that the terror outfit Al-Qaeda was trying to use Rohingya community for terror and Jihad.

Govindacharya has in his application, seeking to be impleaded in an already pending matter, said: "It has also become known that Al-Qaeda is trying to use the Rohingya community for terror and Jihad, and if Rohingyas' plea is entertained, then it may lead to another partition of the country." Along with Govindacharya, advocate Rohit Pandey has also moved the top court seeking deportation of Rohingya Muslims. The top court is hearing a plea by one Mohammad Salimullah and others seeking a direction to the central government not to deport about 40,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar. Counsel Prashant Bhushan is appearing for Mohammad Salimullah and other petitioners.

Govindacharya has said the "population explosion" was taking a heavy toll on the already strained resources of the country. "People are dying in Delhi under heaps of garbage and Rohingyas' demand to the government to provide them with basic amenities violate the fundamental rights of Indians," he said. His impleadment application mentions that the Union Home Ministry has issued an advisory to all the states to "identify and deport all illegally staying immigrants, as they pose a threat to the national security". Telling the court that he had retired from active politics and was engaged in social service and associated with Rashtriya Swabhimaan Aandolan, Govindacharya has said that "the decision by the government has not been made in a haste". The government's decision to consult the National Security Advisor and Intelligence Bureau Director, besides other top officers of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and other intelligence agencies, showed that "the threat is credible".