CM Mamata Banerjee: We will never allow NRC to get implemented in West Bengal

Kolkata: After Union Home Minister Amit Shah batted for nationwide NRC in Rajya Sabha, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reiterated her stand in Murshidabad on Wednesday that NRC will not be implemented in the state and there will be no division based on religion there.

She also said that people have no reason to get scared as the state government will not allow any such preparation of list.

Speaking at a public meeting in Murshidabad district’s Sagardighi, Mamata said citizenship of any person cannot be taken away in Bengal, making him or her a refugee.

"We will not allow anybody to divide people on the basis of religion," she announced.

She also questioned the BJP-led government at the Centre over the omission of names of nearly 19 lakh Hindus and Bengalis from the final NRC list drawn in Assam.

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"There are people in Bengal who are trying create trouble in the state by stating that NRC will be carried out in Bengal. I want to tell people again that we will never allow the NRC to get implemented in Bengal," she said.

However, Amit Shah made his stand clear in the Rajya Sabha that NRC will be implemented across the country and asserted that people from all religion should be rest assured.

Meanwhile, making a veiled attack on AIMM, Mamata said that leaders visiting West Bengal from Hyderabad with "money bags" and claiming to be sympathizers of Muslims are the "biggest allies" of the BJP.

Incidentally, AIMM plans to field candidates in all Assembly seats in West Bengal in the upcoming 2021 Assembly polls. The minority community happens to be the biggest vote bank of TMC.

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