Mamata in Assam promises to scrap NRC and CAA
The West Bengal chief minister rallied her supporters with a call for action, urging them to unite under the TMC banner to oust the BJP from power.
The West Bengal chief minister rallied her supporters with a call for action, urging them to unite under the TMC banner to oust the BJP from power.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that there will be no CAA, NRC or Uniform Civil Code in Bengal as these measures are intended to divide the country.
The Union minister of state for ports, shipping and waterways, Shantanu Thakur, claimed on Monday that he received a threat letter from the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) over the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Banerjee said that the Centre has NRC at the back of their minds after CAA.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday iterated that her government will never allow the National Register of Citizens to be implemented in West Bengal
The call of Bharat Bandh on Wednesday was given by some organisations including 'Bahujan Kranti Morcha' whose convener, Omveer Singh, was arrested by the police along with three others on Tuesday from Meerut for putting up posters of the Bandh.
This is the first protest of women in western UP where hundreds of them have gathered in a protest against CAA, NRC, and NPR under the aegis of Murtahida Khawatin Committee (MKC).
She said while answering queries from the media, “The Centre should first repeal the Draconian law and then we are willing to talk. But they first make such laws and then ask for a discourse on the issue.”
“None of the West Bengal, Kerala and Rajashthan governments can defy the Centre and refuse to implement CAA, National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens(NRC),” he said.
For the first time in the 163-year history of the university the convocation was held without the chancellor.
