Won’t enable BJP to implement CAA, says Mamata; it is going to be achieved: Union minister
By PTI
KOLKATA/ JALPAIGURI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the Centre for the potential implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, claiming that the BJP was raking the problem forward of the Gujarat meeting election.
Hours later, Union Minister of State for Home Nisith Pramanik asserted that the CAA will likely be regularly carried out throughout the nation.
The Centre had on Monday determined to grant Indian citizenship to minorities principally from Pakistan, who’ve migrated to India, and are at present residing in two districts of Gujarat, underneath the Citizenship Act, 1955, and never the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA).
“Stop all these politics. They (BJP) are doing it because there are elections in Gujarat. We will not let them implement it. To us, all are citizens (of India). We are against this,” Banerjee informed reporters on the Kolkata airport earlier than leaving for Chennai.
She has travelled to the southern Indian metropolis to attend a household gathering of West Bengal Governor La Ganesan.
“I would say that elections are not that important, politics are not that important, people’s lives are more important,” she added.
Union minister Pramanik, after touchdown at Bagdogra airport within the northern a part of West Bengal, informed reporters that the laws will likely be carried out throughout the nation.
“The CAA is for the deprived and oppressed Hindus and others. It will be implemented not only in Gujarat but also gradually all over India,” he stated.
Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP on Tuesday claimed that the method of CAA implementation has began within the nation and the state won’t be neglected of it.
BJP MLA Ashim Sarkar, nevertheless, on Tuesday sang a special tune questioning what was the necessity for Citizenship Act in 2019 if citizenship was granted underneath the 1955 Act.
The Narendra Modi authorities desires to grant Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — who had come to India until December 31, 2014.
The CAA was handed by the Parliament in 2019 however the legislation is but to be carried out as guidelines underneath it haven’t been framed.
The promise of implementing the controversial CAA had been a serious ballot plank of the BJP within the final Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.
The saffron social gathering’s leaders think about it a believable issue that led to the rise of the BJP in West Bengal. The panchayat election is due within the state in 2023.
KOLKATA/ JALPAIGURI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the Centre for the potential implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, claiming that the BJP was raking the problem forward of the Gujarat meeting election.
Hours later, Union Minister of State for Home Nisith Pramanik asserted that the CAA will likely be regularly carried out throughout the nation.
The Centre had on Monday determined to grant Indian citizenship to minorities principally from Pakistan, who’ve migrated to India, and are at present residing in two districts of Gujarat, underneath the Citizenship Act, 1955, and never the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA).
“Stop all these politics. They (BJP) are doing it because there are elections in Gujarat. We will not let them implement it. To us, all are citizens (of India). We are against this,” Banerjee informed reporters on the Kolkata airport earlier than leaving for Chennai.
She has travelled to the southern Indian metropolis to attend a household gathering of West Bengal Governor La Ganesan.
“I would say that elections are not that important, politics are not that important, people’s lives are more important,” she added.
Union minister Pramanik, after touchdown at Bagdogra airport within the northern a part of West Bengal, informed reporters that the laws will likely be carried out throughout the nation.
“The CAA is for the deprived and oppressed Hindus and others. It will be implemented not only in Gujarat but also gradually all over India,” he stated.
Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP on Tuesday claimed that the method of CAA implementation has began within the nation and the state won’t be neglected of it.
BJP MLA Ashim Sarkar, nevertheless, on Tuesday sang a special tune questioning what was the necessity for Citizenship Act in 2019 if citizenship was granted underneath the 1955 Act.
The Narendra Modi authorities desires to grant Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — who had come to India until December 31, 2014.
The CAA was handed by the Parliament in 2019 however the legislation is but to be carried out as guidelines underneath it haven’t been framed.
The promise of implementing the controversial CAA had been a serious ballot plank of the BJP within the final Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.
The saffron social gathering’s leaders think about it a believable issue that led to the rise of the BJP in West Bengal. The panchayat election is due within the state in 2023.
