New Delhi, June 21 :    New Delhi, June 21:  Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee?s Dhaka bus diplomacy has jeopardised the BJP?s campaign for ouster of ?illegal? Bangladeshi immigrants from India. The ouster plea has been a major saffron plank and an integral part of BJP?s pro-Hindutva package which includes the Ayodhya temple, need for a uniform civil code and abrogation of Article 370. Barely had Vajpayee extended India?s hand of friendship to Bangladesh than BJP president Kushabhau Thakre reportedly declared in Guwahati there was a ?major demographic aggression? into Assam from the southern parts. The reference to Dhaka in the statement is obvious. Asked how the BJP will reconcile Vajpayee?s goodwill trip with its political compulsion to keep the ?illegal immigration? issue alive, party spokesman K.N. Govindacharya today told reporters: ?Inadvertently or advertently, a huge population influx changes the demographic pattern. That is what Thakre meant.? Govindacharya even suggested that Dhaka may not be aware of the flow of its people into India. ?It may not be advertently indulged in by the Bangladesh government,? he said. Asked if the BJP had softened its stand, he replied: ?Illegal immigration has been going on for 30 years. The BJP is concerned about it. The Dhaka bus trip does not mean we will compromise on the issue.? Party sources said Thakre raised the matter in Guwahati to signal the BJP?s interest in striking a deal with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). The AGP came into being on the Bangladeshi infiltration plank, and BJP sources said it was ?necessary? to clarify that it was as committed to it as the Assam party, bus diplomacy notwithstanding. Unlike the AGP, which considers every immigrant illegal, the BJP makes a distinction between Hindus ?- labelled as ?refugees escaping from Islamic persecution? ?- and Muslims. In the BJP?s view, Muslims alone should be deported from India and Hindu immigrants ?accommodated?. Govindacharya lambasted West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu for not being present at Dhaka airport to receive the Prime Minister on Saturday. ?Basu?s absence at Dhaka airport when the Prime Minister arrived shows the anti-democratic and uncivilised mindset of the communist leadership. Basu has repeatedly described the BJP and our government as ?barbaric?. But his own behaviour, and that too in a foreign land, leaves a lot to be desired,? he said. He alleged the CPM leadership was ?yet to get used to the idea of popular opinion and the right of people to decide in a democracy? and was ?still stuck in the Stalinist era?. As examples he pointed out that the CPM had refused to accept the BJP as the main Opposition party in 1991, Basu had gone on record to say he did not accept Vajpayee as Prime Minister, and his was the only government to officially oppose the Pokhran tests. Govindacharya termed the G8 communiqu? on Kashmir as a ?fine success of the government?s diplomatic initiative?. ?Nawaz Sharif?s threat that Pakistan will open other fronts is a tacit admission that Pakistan is officially involved in Kargil. The Pakistani state is clearly working against the interests of the Pakistanis. A failing state ends up committing political hara-kiri. This is what the Pakistani state is aiming for,? he said.