West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee joined the list of opposition leaders criticising the centre government’s move to notify the rules for implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act. Banerjee questioned as to why the Narendra Modi led government was not following the commonly practiced of granting citizenship that is followed throughout the world.
“CAA is related to NRC. In the USA, if anyone studies there for five years, he gets a green card. Everywhere across the world, countries follow a similar rule. But what have they done in Bengal, in India?” They have eliminated the entire Muslim community those who have come from Bangladesh or various other places,” Banerjee said in an address to people at a public distribution event in Siliguri.
Banerjee criticised the laws for lacking clarity and warned Hindus by saying ‘Hindus should not forget that when NRC, CAA was implemented in Assam, among 19 lakh illegal migrants, 13 lakh were Hindu Bengalis. Keep this in mind’.
The chief minister further attacked the ruling party saying
‘The BJP keeps blabbering Hindu Hindu. Theirs is a different shade of Hindu. This is not the Hindu religion that celebrates Durga Puja or which was followed by Ramakrishna. It is not the Hindu of the Vedas, Swami Vivekananda, Birsa Munda, Panchanan Barma, Matua Thakur. They have created a new breed of Hindu religion which tarnishes and disrespects the very Hindu religion.”
She also lamented central government for allegedly deactivating the Aadhar cards of some citizens from Bengal.
