KOKRAJHAR, February 10 (IANS): If the BJP forms a government in Assam, it will end illegal infiltration from Bangladesh, BJP president Amit Shah said on Wednesday. Blaming the Congress government in Assam for the continuing infiltration, Shah said the BJP was determined not to let the illegals infringe upon the rights of people in Assam and the Bodoland region. Shah said this while addressing a public rally organised by the Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) to mark Bodoland Day. "Illegal infiltration started in Assam after the Congress resorted to vote bank politics," Shah said. "The infiltrators from Bangladesh have spread across the state. They have infringed upon the rights of local youths, be they from tea gardens or Hindi-speaking community or Bodoland. "If a BJP-BPF government comes to power in Assam, we are going to ensure that there is no infiltration in Assam," Shah said. Shah referred to the 1962 war with China, and said then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had bid goodbye to the people of Assam and the northeast then. Shah also hit out at Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi saying that Assam had been left behind on the development front in the past 15 years of Congress rule.