Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is law of the land and no one can stop its implementation. Shah also accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading people on the issue.
Addressing a meeting of the state BJP's social media and IT wing members at the National Library in Kolkata, Shah stated that it is the commitment of the party to implement the CAA. Shah expressed confidence that the party will secure more than 35 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats from the state. In the 2019 polls, the saffron party won 18 seats.
The Bengal BJP media cell shared a list of pointers of Shah's speech at the closed-door programme. Later, it also shared a few video clips of Shah's speech.
In a video clip shared by the BJP's media wing. Shah said, "We have to work to form a BJP government in West Bengal after the next assembly polls. A BJP government will mean the end of infiltration, cow smuggling and providing citizenship to religiously persecuted people through CAA," he said at the party programme, as quoted by news agency PTI.
'Mamata Banerjee Tries To Mislead People': Amit Shah Slams Bengal CM Over CAA Issue
The Union Home Minister slammed Banerjee and said that she is misleading people about whether CAA will be implemented in the country or not.
"At times, she tries to mislead the people, the refugees, whether CAA will be at all implemented in the country or not. I want to say this clearly that CAA is the law of the land and no one can stop its implementation. This is the commitment of our party," he said, as quoted by PTI.
The TMC led by Mamata Banerjee has been opposing the CAA, which was passed by Parliament in 2019. The CAA seeks to provide Indian citizenship to persecuted minorities like Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who had entered India on or before December 31, 2014.