Meenakshi Lekhi slams Mamata for opposing CAA; says, 'Don't create hindrance to Centre'

A day after meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi took a jibe at Mamata Banerjee creating hindrance. Mamata Banerjee said she raised issue of CAA, NRC and NPR with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded that such laws be repealed. 

"I told him that we are against CAA, NRC and NPR. I told him re should be discrimination among masses and citizens are left out and tortured," she told journalists after meeting Modi at Raj Bhavan.

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Lekhi stated that if Mamata has taken Oath of Constitution, she has to abide by it and should t create hindrance in decision taken by central government.

"Mamata Banerjee took oath of constitution so she has to abide by constitution. state has right to get into and hindrance in decision taken by center. I am sure people will get to kw who is with patriots and who are with infiltrators. She is stood by infiltrators and doing vote bank politics and thing."

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PM Modi & CM Mamata Banerjee Hold 20-min Chat

Upon arriving in West Bengal on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata. Prime Minister Modi is in Kolkata to participate in 150th-anniversary celebrations of Kolkata Port Trust.

meeting between Prime Minister and Trinamool chief comes against backdrop of latter holding rally after rally to muster support for her opposition to contentious Citizenship Amendment Act which has w come into force.

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West Bengal has been viewed as somewhat of a final frontier for BJP with party making major inroads into Mamata's bastion, amid heated and often violent politics in lead-up to 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

2021 will witness West Bengal going to polls once again as Mamata will aim to remain CM, having assumed role a decade earlier in 2011 after defeating Left - viewed by many as one of most significant political victories in recent Indian history.

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