jamshedpur bjp has claimed that 8000 illegal immigrants from bangladesh are living in steel cityseeking a thorough probe into the matter of illegal immigrants settling in the industrial town the party has demanded the district administration to verify the vanshavali genealogy of the doubtful citizensa delegation of the bjp led by state bjp executive committee member devender singh gave a representation to adc jaideep tigga on thursday in this regardthe count of the bangladeshi immigrants could be more than 8000 our information suggests that the bangladeshi nationals have slipped into our city through purulia district after crossing over to murshidabad district from bangladesh devender singh saidthe bjp leader has claimed that the illegal immigrants possessing fake citizenship documents namely aadhar voter id and pds ration cards are living in the slums in areas dominated by the minority community in the peripherals of the urban circle and also in the rural areashe said kapali in chandil in adjoining seraikelakharswan district on the outskirts of the steel city besides ulidih in mango haldipokar in potka and musaboni and ghatshila the rural areas are the places where bangladeshi immigrants are living illegallythe authorities should demand the vanshavali from residents who flaunt the citizenship documents on murshidabad addresses this step will certainly help identify the illegal immigrants singh saidfurther he said majority of the bangladeshi immigrants are engaged in building construction work mason job while several are fruit vendorswe have reports from our sources that bangladeshi immigrants are steadily slipping into our district with the help of the agents operating from purulia singh saiddistrict congress president anand bihari dubey criticised singh for raking up bangladeshi immigrants issue the bjp leader should produce the data of the illegal immigrants to the administration officials for investigation if he has any dubey said he added that the demand from the administration to investigate the immigrants issue is nothing but a political move of the bjp leader to bring a nonissue into the centre of the political discourse ahead of the next year lok sabha elections