3Photo© hindustantimes.comCAA linked to NRC, won’t allow detention camps in West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee
Citizenship Amendment Act 2019: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asserted that her state won’t allow “detention camps” akin to neighbouring Assam as the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is invariably linked to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) which is why she and her party are opposing the contentious legislation.
“The CAA is related to NRC, that is why we are opposing it. We don’t want detention camps like those in Assam,” Banerjee told reporters in Jalpaiguri, while also dubbed the CAA as a “political gimmick” played by the ruling BJP ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing an administrative meeting in Jalpaiguri, Banerjee alleged that the CAA aims to create communal division among the people of the country as she criticised the exclusion of Muslims from the ambit of the new legislation which allows providing Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.