DHAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi declared that all infiltrators from Bangladesh would be sent back after May 16 if his party is voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Counting of votes for all 543 Lok Sabha seats will be taken up on May 16 and all results are expected by that evening. Most opinion polls have placed the BJP as the front-runner in the elections.

Addressing an election meeting at Serampore in West Bengal, Mr Modi criticized West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s "vote-bank politics’.

He also tore into Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress Sunday night, accusing them of complicity in the Saradha chit fund scam and warned of taking strong action against all beneficiaries of the Saradha scam if he became Prime Minister.

Modi said Ms Banerjee practised "vote-bank politics", as was evident from the way she treated migrants from Bihar and Odisha as "outsiders" but welcomed infiltrators from Bangladesh.

"People from Odisha and Bihar are outsiders for you but Bangladeshis come and see the shine on your face," he said.

"After May 16, all these Bangladeshis will have to pack their bags and leave," he said, to loud cheers from the crowds.

BDST: 1143 HRS, APR 28, 2014