West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the Trinamool Congress government in the state will not allow implementation of the National Register of Citizen in the state.
The implementation of the NRC as nothing but a political vendetta of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government, she told the assembly.
We will never let BJP implement the NRC in West Bengal, she said at the assembly during a discussion on the motion on NRC under Rule 185.
This (NRC implementation) is nothing but an attempt to divert the attention of the people from the ongoing economic crisis in the country, she said.
Assam is the only stat in the country where the NRC has been implemented. The final list was published on August 31.
There is nobody in the country to speak against the BJP in the country, Banerjee added.
Banerjee also criticised the manner in which former Union minister P Chidambaram was sent to Tihar jail in the INX Media case.
The central government should have shown him ‘minimum respect’, she told the state assembly.
I don’t know what is there in the Chidambaram case. Law will take its own course. But what was the purpose of keeping him Tihar jail like an ordinary prisoner? They should have shown minimum respect to him, Banerjee said.
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