Published 23:06 IST, September 12th 2019
Mamata Banerjee warns BJP at Anti-NRC rally: Can't bring it to Bengal
CM Banerjee has led a mega protest rally against the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) list in Assam and warned BJP that she will never allow NRC in Bengal
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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee led a mega protest rally in Kolkata against implementation of National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) list in Assam. rally was held against NRC list in which names of more than 19 lakh people did t feature. Mamata Banerjee has been a critic of NRC and has been questioning motive of Narendra Modi government behind it since time plan was anunced by central government.
Chief Minister has repeatedly stated that West Bengal government will t allow Centre to prepare NRC in Bengal. Warning BJP t to 'play with fire', Banerjee said that she will never allow NRC in her State and does t accept NRC in Assam.
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'BJP cant silence Bengal', Banerjee lashes out
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that BJP has mand to silence people of Assam by using police ministration but y cant silence Bengal. Hitting out at BJP, she stated that out of 19 lakh people whose names have t featured in list, 11 lakh are Hindus and 1 lakh are Gorkhas.
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'You (BJP) cant make us bow down. You are trying to destroy culture of Bengal. This is t just Bengal’s trition that you are destroying, you are destroying country’s trition. I will t let you divide Bengal and country', lashed out an angry Mamata Banerjee after walking a 4-kilometer stretch from Sine more to Shyambazar in rth Kolkata. mega rally h many prominent TMC faces like senior MP Sudip Bandyophyay, MP Saugata Roy, WB Minister Dr. Sashi Panja and Kolkata's Mayor Firh Hakim.
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'Can't implement NRC in Bengal till I am alive'
West Bengal Legislative Assembly passed a resolution against introduction of NRC last week. resolution, jointly moved by ruling Trinamool Congress, Left Front, and Congress, was passed to prevent its implementation in state of West Bengal. BJP MLAs walked out after opposing resolution after debate on it. Terming it to be a 'colossal human trdy' and 'a conspiracy hatched by BJP with sole aim of political vendetta', TMC has blazed out all its gun on Centre.
'Till time I’m alive, you can’t implement NRC in Bengal. And after I die, my party will t allow you to implement it in state' said supremo from st as hundreds of her supporters shouted anti-NRC slogans. In 2005, Mamata Banerjee as sole MP from TMC stormed out of Parliament on issue of illegal immigration. She h n accused n Left Front government in West Bengal to allow trespassers or Bangleshi immigrants to enter into Bengal illegally, claiming that those illegal immigrants were used as a vote bank for Left.
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18:29 IST, September 12th 2019