Delhi Election 2025: These days, the country's capital Delhi is feeling hot even in winter. The atmosphere is hot here due to the elections and all the political parties are attacking each other. On the one hand, the phase of defection is going on, on the other hand, the issue of Rohingya Muslims is also being raised. Rohingyas have been an important weapon of Indian politics for the last few years, even though they are not getting any amenities, politics has always been hot about expelling them from the country and their vote bank. Now in the Delhi elections, BJP is alleging that Aam Aadmi Party is taking advantage of this vote bank.

BJP claims that Aam Aadmi Party is sheltering and using illegal intruders for vote bank. In such a situation, people have questions in their minds about whether Rohingya Muslims are really going to vote in the Delhi elections, whether is it really a big vote bank and do they really have any concern with voting.

How many Rohingyas are there in Delhi?

We will answer all these questions, but first, let us know how many Rohingya Muslims live in Delhi. No official figure has been given by the government, but according to the figures, three to five thousand Rohingyas live in Delhi. Most of them are living illegally in India, and the police keep arresting them in raids. However, there are some Rohingyas who are living here as refugees. They are given help by the United Nations, because the UN has given refugee status to Rohingyas.

Do they have the right to vote?

Some of the hundreds of Rohingya Muslims living in Delhi have voter ID cards, these people have been living in Delhi for many years. Usually they live in a slum or under a flyover. Camps have been set up for them in Shaheen Bagh, Bakkarwala, and Madanpur Khadar in Delhi. Rohingya Muslims living illegally are afraid that the police may identify them, so they do not even take the risk of making voter cards. That is, only a few Rohingya Muslims in Delhi have the right to vote and they have voter cards. In such a situation, it is not right for anyone to consider it a big vote bank. However, thousands of Bangladeshi refugees are going to cast their vote for the first time in this assembly election.

The government is preparing to deport them.

Even though Rohingya Muslims have been given refugee status by the UN, the BJP government at the Center still considers them illegal intruders. This is the reason why the government has talked about sending about 40 thousand Rohingya Muslims back to their country Myanmar. Apart from Rohingya Muslims, the number of illegal Bangladeshi people is also very high. In a reply given in the year 2016, the government told the Parliament that their number could be up to two crores. In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the government denied having any figures.

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