"If these five lakh illegal migrants are driven out of Mumbai, five lakhs Indians will get job opportunities and there will be less threat perception to Mumbai as well," VHP leader Praveen Togadia told a press conference.

If North Indians are pushed out of Maharashtra, the space will be filled by another stream of Bangladeshis, he said.

To a question whether he plans to meet Sena chief Bal Thackeray or MNS president Raj Thackeray over the migrant issue, Togadia replied in negative.

Such controversies, he said, had earlier happened in some states like Punjab but the issue later subsided.

The VHP leader criticised the Congress-led UPA government for ‘appeasement’ of minorities and making financial allocations on religious grounds.

On Sethusamudram project, he said VHP was against politicising the issue and also against a single political party, be it BJP, taking mileage out of it.