Statements of PM Modi and Amit Shah contradictory over NRC: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata/IBNS: Hitting the streets for the sixth day against the new controversial citizenship law and National Register of Citizens (NRC), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the statements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah over NRC are self-contradictory.
Addressing a gathering prior to the commencement of Trinamool Congress' rally from north Kolkata's Bidhan Sarani, Mamata said, "Now the Prime Minister is saying no NRC has yet been drafted. His statement is contradictory with what Home Minister had said. Whatever they have said are in public domain."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan on Sunday said, "No Indian Muslims need to fear about CAA," and added, "People are saying about detention camps. There are no detention camps and nothing about NRC has been drafted yet. The Opposition is lying over CAA and NRC."
However, both Modi and Shah had earlier stated the CAA will be followed by a nation-wide NRC to throw out the infiltrators from the country.
Mamata also linked the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019- which will grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan before 2015- with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s electoral downfall in Jharkhand.
"People have started to give answers to the BJP's arrogance," the Trinamool chief said referring to the Jharkhand elections where the BJP has been dethroned by Janmukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) alliance.
Slamming BJP working president Jagat Prakash Nadda, who held a pro-CAA rally in the city on Monday, Mamata contrasted the "democratic" picture of West Bengal with the "undemocratic" space in the states which are under the BJP's administration.
"The BJP leader came here and held a rally. We could have stopped it but we didn't. But our party leaders were not allowed to enter Uttar Pradesh," Mamata said.
Just hours after West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar attacked Mamata over the "lawlessness" in the state, the Chief Minister said, "There is one person who says there is no law in the state. He must see the states which are under the BJP's administration."
Dhankhar attacked the Chief Minister and Trinamool government after he was blocked in Jadavpur University by a Trinamool-led organisation and was denied an attendance in the annual convocation.
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