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Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is linked with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and that’s the reason why she is opposing the brand new laws.
The TMC supremo mentioned she does not need detention camps in West Bengal, like these in Assam.
“The CAA is related to NRC, that is why we are opposing it. We don’t want detention camps like those in Assam,” she advised reporters right here.
Banerjee additionally claimed that the CAA is a “political gimmick” forward of Lok Sabha polls.
With the CAA guidelines being issued, the central authorities will now begin granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who got here to India until December 31, 2014. These embrace Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians.
Addressing an administrative assembly in Jalpaiguri earlier within the day, Banerjee underscored that the citizenship-granting course of proposed by the central authorities is totally different from that of different nations.
The TMC supremo criticised the exclusion of Muslims from the ambit of the CAA, asserting that it goals at creating division among the many nation’s populace.
Expressing considerations over the dearth of readability within the CAA utility course of and its potential ramifications on individuals’s rights, Banerjee affirmed her administration’s dedication to safeguarding the residents of West Bengal.
“We are not landlords, but vigilant custodians. No one will be ousted from West Bengal. All refugees will find permanent settlement here,” she pledged.
Banerjee additionally rebuked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that it espouses a “distorted interpretation of Hinduism”.
“The BJP’s conception of Hinduism deviates from the teachings of the Vedas and Swami Vivekananda,” she contended.
Hitting out at her brother Babun Banerjee for talking out in opposition to the TMC’s number of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, the occasion supremo mentioned she has determined to resign all relationships with him.
“My family and I renounce all relationships with him. I don’t like greedy people. I have heard what he has said. He is in touch with the BJP and can do whatever he wants to. Please don’t relate me with him,” she mentioned.
During the executive assembly, Banerjee prolonged the ‘Cha Sundari’ scheme, offering land titles and allocating funds for housing development for tea backyard staff. Additionally, she unveiled numerous growth tasks for north Bengal districts.
The CM mentioned the widespread chorus of the saffron occasion that the TMC authorities had usurped cash underneath the 100 days’ work scheme is “false”.
“The Centre does not the give the money which is due to us. Had they given, we could have done more,” she mentioned.
First Published: Mar 13 2024 | 4:02 PM IST
