Guwahati: Hindutva leader Pravin Togadia, who leads the Antarashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP), on Wednesday accused the BJP-led government of failing to fulfil its pre-poll promise of deporting illegal Bangladeshi migrants from Assam while demanding their expulsion after update of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

"If Bangladesh refuses to take them back, the Indian army should capture a portion of the neighbouring country for settlement of the Muslim Bangladeshi infiltrators and then fence the border properly. People of Assam voted for the BJP as it had promised to push out the Bangladeshis, but it has deported only 17 in the last two years.

"The NRC is only a part of the process to solve the problem of illegal migrants and so the BJP-led government should deport the infiltrators to fulfil its promise to protect " jati, mati bheti (community, land and home)," Togadia told reporters here.

Guwahati police commissioner Hiren Chandra Nath had on Tuesday prohibited Togadia from attending any function here and making "inflammatory" speeches that could hurt the sentiments of the minorities ahead of the release of final draft of the NRC on July 30.

Togadia's meeting at the ITA cultural centre at Machkhowa that was slated for Wednesday was shifted to Srimantapur where he addressed a news conference.

Togadia, who formed the AHP after leaving the Viswa Hindu Parishad recently, slammed the police for the ban stating it was "curtailment of his fundamental rights".

"It looks like the BJP-led government is also trying to appease the Muslim migrants by imposing a ban on my speeches like the Congress did earlier. I met Nath today and told him that I had addressed thousands of rallies across the country, including here, and there was no law and order problem. So I requested him to reconsider the ban," he said.

When asked about protests in Assam against the BJP's "efforts" to offer citizenship to Hindu illegal migrants from Bangladesh, Togadia said: "Muslims are infiltrators in India, not the Hindus. So if any Hindu comes from any other country, it is the responsibility of the entire country and not just Assam. The government should settle the Hindus in other states of the country as well. Our workers are ready to help them in other states."

On his "bitter" relations now with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Togadia said: "My personal relations with someone have no meaning if he does not save national interest. If Modi ji deports 50 lakh Muslim Bangladeshis from Assam, he will become my elder brother."

Asked where he got the figure of 50 lakh Bangladeshis, Togadia said it was ministry of home affairs' data in Parliament. Union minister of state for home, Kiren Rijiju, had told the Rajya Sabha on November 16, 2016, that two crore illegal migrants from Bangladesh were living in India.

However, former Union minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal told Parliament that of the 1.2 crore illegal Bangladeshis living in the country, 50 lakh were in Assam.