TMC MP Mahua Moitra Says Bangladesh Is Better Than India

TMC MP Mahua Moitra has once again found herself at the center of a political storm, after making incendiary remarks that was deeply derogatory toward India. In an interview with a private news channel, Moitra appeared to belittle her own country, posing the provocative question, “Who wants to live in India?” She went on to argue that Bangladesh fares better than India on key indicators such as GDP and infrastructure claims starkly at odds with the reality of Bangladesh’s ongoing economic and internal challenges, including its dependency on international aid.

While being questioned on the issue of illegal immigration, the interviewer raised the concern of a porous border and infiltration. She asked, “We all know that there is an infiltration problem because of a very huge porous?”

Moitra quickly interrupted, brushing aside the issue and delivering a controversial defense of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, “Where is this huge infiltration problem? Where? Who wants to live in India? Who? Who? Tell me one thing. I have a border constituency, who wants to live in India now? I have Kushtia on the other side, the GDP the health indicators and a lot of things in Bangladesh are actually better. Please let Narendra Modi and Amit Shah get this out of his head that the whole world wants to come and live in India. 11 lakh people earning professionals who have paid taxes have left India in the past 3 years. Nobody wants to, is looking at India as this land of honey and cream that people want to come and settle here. Please get this out of your head. Right? There are Indian immigrants running away from India. Taxpaying people today paying $1 million for golden passports in Dubai, in Portugal, in European countries.”

Her argument did not stop there. When confronted with the fact that impoverished Bangladeshis are unlikely to afford the luxury of emigrating legally or paying for “golden visas,” Moitra doubled down saying, “Oh, no. No. One minute. One minute. One second. One second. I’m talking of Indians who are going to pay, but in Bangladesh, please get this out of your head that Bangladeshis are dying to come and live in India. Please get this out of your head. If your CAA is such a great thing and you’re trying to give everybody through the legal process, why isn’t anyone supplying through the legal process? Not even 2,000 people have applied. You have gazetted CAA. You are saying I will give refuge to Bangladeshi Hindus. Yes, or no? The CAA has technically happened. So why aren’t Bangladeshi Hindus why do they need to cross the border? I want to know why Bangladeshi Hindus need to cross the border. They can apply to the ministry of home affairs and Amit Shah will give them Indian citizenship. So, who is, who who are these people who are dying being persecuted and wanting to come to India and the border control’s under you? Why don’t you control the border? How much money you have spent two lakh crores on the minister of home affairs budget. Two lakh crores. Where’s the money gone to? Where’s the money gone to? Why don’t you beef up security in the border? Put more BSF. Put more lights. Get more technology. Don’t let a single person come in.”

Her remarks seen as dismissive of India’s global standing, overly sympathetic to illegal immigrants, and derisive of national security concern have drawn widespread criticism. Critics argue that Moitra has crossed a line by defending another country at the expense of her own, downplaying the seriousness of illegal infiltration, and ignoring India’s demonstrable progress on the global stage.

The backlash on social media and across political lines has been swift, with many accusing Moitra of undermining national interest and providing political ammunition to anti-India narratives.

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