TMC govt asserts against process in the state, whereas conducting the exercise is BJP’s election promise
Stage is all set for a massive showdown in West Bengal between a doughty Mamata Banerjee and union home minister and BJP president Amit Shah with the latter scheduled to speak on National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Bill in Kolkata on October 1.
Incidentally, the challenge from Shah comes soon after Mamata met him at his north block office in Delhi on September 18 over the same issue and came out asserting emphatically that after Assam fiasco the NRC will be not be implemented in her state.
While Mamata has taken pot shots at the Modi government for implementing a faulty NRC that resulted in targeting lakhs of Hindi and Bengali speaking Indian citizens among 19.06 lakh not included in the final list, the BJP has decided to press forward with the controversial scheme declaring that it would be implemented in every state of India to ensure that every illegal immigrant is weeded out.
CONFUSION LOOMS
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LAST WEEK CM MAMATA HAD MET SHAH, PM MODI
- BJP is unsure how the citizenship amendment bill card will play as people are fidgety about increasing pressure on land and resources due to fresh influx
- Declaring citizenship bill as a BJP’s lollipop to fool people, Mamata has already declared her intentions to fight tooth and nail against it
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Aware that the BJP will not stop short of taking an aggressive approach on the NRC and Citizenship Amendment bill until the West Bengal assembly elections are over in 2021, Mamata Banerjee has also decided to counter it rhetorically.
On Monday, Mamata claimed that six people had died due to panic created over the NRC again asserting that the exercise will not be implemented in the state.
"I am sad that six people have died in Bengal due to panic created over NRC. We will never allow NRC here. Please have faith in me," she said speaking at a Trade Union meeting.
Earlier, she had said that lakhs of Hindus and also Gorkhas, Biharis, Tamils and people from Kerala and Rajasthan have been left out from the NRC in Assam.
BJP sources maintain that in sum total they are expected to gain because of NRC in West Bengal as people are increasingly getting apprehensive of illegal immigrant population in areas jutting the Bangladesh border, especially in the chicken neck's corridor, the 22 kilometre wide narrow strip that joins mainland India with the northeast.
However, the BJP is unsure how the citizenship amendment bill card will play as people are fidgety about increasing pressure on land and resources due to fresh influx. Declaring citizenship bill as a BJP's lollipop to fool people, Mamata has already declared her intentions to fight tooth and nail against it.
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