Kanhaiya Kumar takes on NDA Govt over CAB, NRC and unemployment issues

A joint forum against National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Bill was organized at Kolkata on Monday as same bill was introduced in Lok Sabha by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.  Speaking at meeting, Left Front leader Kanhaiya Kumar charged into Govt asking why do y need a bill to identify a citizen's legality.

"Today, satellites can tell us about our roads. You speak of shoes and mobiles, Facebook will give you advertisement of same in a sec. If this can happen n why can't y identify illegal people?," said Kumar who alleged that PM Modi learnt such ideas by travelling abroad.

Apart from Kumar, public meeting also saw speakers like Kavita Krishnan, former civil servant Kannan Gopinathan and Forward Bloc MLA Ali Imran Ramz (Victor).

'False pride'

Kumar stated that Indian ecomy is in perils and one would come here to find employment, hitting at unemployment issues in country. "On health and education sector, we are behind Bangladesh. Who will come to us for work looking at ecomy? This is false pride. Pride is when Bengal wins bel prize back to back,'' Left Front Leader added.

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Kanhaiya Kumar takes a dig at BJP

Taking a dig at BJP's election manifesto of providing jobs and Rs 15 lakhs, Kumar said he derived inspiration from a Hindi film 'Stree' where villrs wrote 'O Stree Kal Ana' on ir doors to keep out evil spirit. "Write on your door, "Oh NRC kal ana, aur 15 lakh lana, sath meh 2 crore naukri lana, aur achhe din bhi" said Kanhaiya who stated that if government does t believe that y are citizens, n y will t believe that it is ir government.

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Joint Forum outrightly opposed what y claim, 'anti'-Constitutional Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 which Union Government tabled in parliament on December 9. Joint Forum also opposed nationwide-NRC and its first step, NPR. central slogan of mass rally was: " NRC, NPR, CAB 2019".

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