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Unfounded fears

Sir, — The apprehensions expressed in your Editorial `Rites of Passage' (Jan. 9) are unwarranted, though not unfounded. Merely because the Union Home Minister's concern over mounting illegal immigration coincides with the Sangh Parivar's `rhetoric' on the same issue should not qualify the exercise of deportation of these illegal immigrants as communal (read `saffron'). Rather, this exercise should be taken on a war footing, lest "they" are allowed to flourish on our soil compounding the problem of an already dilapidated infrastructure which is too meagre to support even our own population. Also it will add to the problems on the employment front.

Alok Srivastava,
New Delhi

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