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TMC nationwide normal secretary claimed that if anybody, regardless of having fun with citizenship, applies for citizenship below the CAA, she or he will probably be branded as Bangladeshi. (PTI File Photograph)
TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee accuses BJP of branding Bengali Hindu migrants as Bangladeshis by means of CAA, addressing an election rally in West Bengal
TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the CAA was a recreation plan of the BJP to model Bengali Hindu migrants and bona fide residents, who had settled in West Bengal a long time again, as Bangladeshis. Addressing an election rally in Ranaghat in Nadia district, the TMC nationwide normal secretary claimed that if anybody, regardless of having fun with citizenship, applies for citizenship below the CAA, she or he will probably be branded as Bangladeshi.
“The Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) is one other ’jumla’ of the BJP. You should bear in mind how the BJP authorities in Assam had despatched many Hindu Bengalis there to detention camps within the title of the Nationwide Register of Residents. We’re all the time in your facet to struggle towards the BJP’s recreation plan to remove your citizenship,” the Diamond Harbour MP stated on the programme. Banerjee challenged the BJP-led NDA authorities on the Centre to make sure these making use of below the CAA get citizenship inside every week from the date of submission of their purposes.
“Is there any want to use below the CAA, if in case you have voter id, PAN or ration card? Don’t apply for citizenship below the CAA. Did any BJP chief apply to the CAA portal? The reply isn’t any,” he stated on the rally. Describing the NDA authorities on the Centre as “anti-Matua group”, Banerjee claimed that Matua chief Mamata Bala Thakur was not allowed to say names of her group’s icons, Guru Chand Thakur and Hari Chand Thakur, throughout her oath-taking ceremony as a Rajya Sabha MP.
Banerjee, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accused the Narendra Modi authorities of depriving staff below the MGNREGA scheme by “withholding” funds of the agricultural employment programme. The Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Act 2005 (MGNREGA) is geared toward enhancing the livelihood safety of households in rural areas of the nation by offering a minimum of 100 days of assured wage employment in a monetary yr.
“Eighteen BJP MPs didn’t utter a single phrase when the Centre took anti-Bengal steps harming the curiosity of the poor. Not a single amongst them had introduced a single paisa to the state whereas our MPs have been suspended for elevating individuals’s grievances,” he stated. Banerjee apprehended that the “one nation one election principle by the BJP will take away individuals’s rights” to solid votes in future elections. He alleged that the “BJP was curbing the rights of Bengali Hindus to eat fish and different non-veg gadgets within the title of faith and by imposing its diktat.”
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