West Bengal Fourth State to Pass Anti-CAA Resolution In Assembly

Referring to the criticisms made by the Congress and the CPI(M) over her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his recent visit to the state, Banerjee said the slogan 'Didi- Modi are both sides of same coin' will boomerang for the opposition parties.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. PIC/PTI

Kolkata: West Bengal became the fourth state after Kerala, Punjab and Rajasthan to pass a resolution against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the Assembly on Monday. The MLAs led by Mamata Banerjee demanded the government to roll back the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) even as she urged the opposition CPI(M) and the Congress to put aside narrow political differences and fight together against the "fascist BJP government" at the Centre. Banerjee said the new citizenship law was "anti-people" and contended that NPR, NRC and CAA were correlated. The chief minister, while speaking on the anti-CAA resolution tabled in the Assembly, demanded that the contentious law be immediately repealed. "The CAA is anti-people, anti-constitutional... We want this law to be repealed immediately," she said. Mamata, who is a trenchant critic of the Modi government, said the Congress and the Left Front should stop spreading canards against her government, she said, "Time has come to forget our narrow differences and fight together to save the country." Referring to the criticisms made by the Congress and the CPI(M) over her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his recent visit to the state, Banerjee said the slogan 'Didi- Modi are both sides of same coin' will boomerang for the opposition parties, reported PTI. "Our state government had the guts to skip the NPR meeting (in Delhi); if the BJP wants it can dismiss my government," she added.