Will repeal NRC, CAA if INDIA bloc voted to power: Mamata in Assam
Dispur (Assam): Alleging that the Modi-led BJP has made the entire country a “detention camp”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the CAA and NRC will be scrapped if the opposition INDIA bloc forms government in India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Mamata Banerjee was addressing an election rally here in support of four TMC candidates in Assam, sayig that there will be no democracy and elections if Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power for the third consecutive term.
“They (BJP) made the entire country a detention camp. This election is very dangerous. I have never seen such a dangerous election in my life,” Banerjee said.
She claimed that her Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma filed a number of police cases while she was agitating in West Bengal supporting Bengali people in the two states.
“What was my fault? Will you jail me, kill me or put me in a detention camp? When 17 lakh Bengali Assamese were excluded out of 19 lakh excluded from NRC, I was there to agitate for the people,” Banerjee said.
She asserted that her party TMC loves all religions and does not want people to be divided on religious lines.
“If the INDIA bloc wins, there will not be the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and Uniform Civil Code. We will repeal all discriminatory laws.
“If Modi wins again, there won’t be democracy and there won’t be any election. The entire country will be sold off,” Banerjee said at the rally.
She appealed to people to vote for all four Trinamool Congress candidates in Assam in the Lok Sabha polls and announced that her party would contest all 126 assembly seats in 2026.
“This is just a trailer and the final is yet to come. I will come again to play the final,” Banerjee added.
