RSS chief on Rohingya: Why have they come here? Why can't they live there?

WION Web Team

New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaUpdated: Sep 30, 2017, 07:45 AM IST

'Only when the constitutional amendments are done, the residents of Jammu and Kashmir can be completely assimilated with the rest of India,' Bhagwat said. Photograph:(ANI)

"Why have they come here? Why can't they stay there," RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Saturday.

"We had not even completely solved problem of Bangladeshi intrusion when problem of Myanmar has been heaped on us," he added.

Bhagwat was speaking in Nagpur on Dussehra.

Wo wahan se yahan yahan kyun aaye hain? Wahan kyun nahi reh sake?: Mohan Bhagwat on Rohingyas
— ANI (@ANI) September 30, 2017

We had not even completely solved problem of Bangladeshi intrusion when problem of Myanmar has been heaped on us: Mohan Bhagwat on Rohingyas pic.twitter.com/nBK7N6PaIG
— ANI (@ANI) September 30, 2017

If we let such ppl stay here, they will not only be a burden on employment but also pose threat to our national security: Mohan Bhagwat pic.twitter.com/qNhqq0OGVo
— ANI (@ANI) September 30, 2017

He added that "if we let the Rohingya stay here, they will not only be a burden on employment but also pose threat to our national security."

Jihadi taaktaon se unke samabandh wahan pe ujagar ho gaye. Isliye us desh ka shaasan ka bhi unke prati rawaiyya kada hi hai: Mohan Bhagwat
— ANI (@ANI) September 30, 2017

Saari jaankari lete hain toh dhyaan ata hai ki unki algavwadi, hinsak aur apradhik gatividhiyan iska kaaran hain: Mohan Bhagwat
— ANI (@ANI) September 30, 2017

Over 500,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in recent weeks.

The exodus began on August 25 after a Rohingya insurgent group attacked army and police posts in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine.

The Myanmarese Army responded with what the UN has since called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

There are at the moment some 40,000 Rohingya registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as living in India.