Salil, thank you for the context. Here's the conversation, I would have expected:
Indian: Do you Americans need a visa to go to the UK?
American: No, just a passport. How about you?
Indian: My passport isn't good enough. I have to get a standard visitors visa as well. Bugger the Indian passport.
"Bugger" is slang for committing anal sodomy and has long been used as a term of contempt, evolving to an expression of moderate exasperation with something. As a verb, it doesn't modify anything. It's direct object is "passport," which "Indian" modifies.
The exasperation seems misplaced, though. The target should be the governments of the two countries, not the harmless passport. After all, if you're an Afghan, the UK will require a visa to visit. And India requires a visa of Britons (and indeed, of all foreign nationals) who want to visit India.
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