The senior Madhya Pradesh minister has also attracted criticism in the past over remarks on a range of issues.In 2022, amid protests against the Modi government’s Agnipath scheme, he said he would prioritise hiring Agniveers for security arrangements at the party office. “If I’ve to hire the services of professionals for security arrangements at the BJP office, I’ll accord priority to Agniveers.”In 2020, addressing a seminar in Indore in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, Vijayvargiya stirred controversy by alleging that some labourers working at his house were Bangladeshis because they only ate poha. The BJP leader also claimed that heightened security around him was due to a Bangladeshi terrorist allegedly conducting reconnaissance for over a year and a half.In August last year, Vijayvargiya again courted controversy by claiming that India could witness civil war in 30 years due to rapid demographic changes.“I recently met a retired military officer, who told me that there will be a civil war in the country after 30 years. He said that 30 years from now, us (Hindus) won’t be able to live here, keeping in mind the fast demographic changes happening in the country. We’ve to think over it seriously and work on making the word Hindu strong urgently.”
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