Updated: December 15, 2020 6:10:52 pm
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. (Archive)
While addressing a rally in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that refugee colonies have been recognized in the state and that no one should fear the National Register of Citizens, the Citizenship Act (Amendment ) and the National Population Registry.
Banerjee also accused the BJP of trying to turn West Bengal into a “riot-torn” Gujarat and challenged the Union government to impose the President’s Rule on the state. “BJP has created a new religion of unrest and hatred between communities,” he alleged.
The supreme of TMC reiterated that the convoy of the national president of the BJP, JP Nadda, was not attacked and wondered why “convicted criminals” accompanied it. “If the BJP and the central government think they can scare us by bringing in central forces and transferring officers from state cadres, they are wrong. The Center is summoning our officers … No one wanted to harm him (Nadda) or his convoy, ”Banerjee said.
The outbreak comes at a time when the BJP-led Center and the TMC government are locked in a new fight after alleged Trinamool men threw stones at Nadda’s caravan.
“Why were so many cars accompanying your convoy? Why were convicted criminals with him? The thugs who vandalized Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s bust last year were also accompanying Nadda… People are enraged when they see those thugs roaming freely… I challenge the Center to enforce the President’s Rule in Bengal, ”added Banerjee.
He also accused the Center of interfering in the state’s jurisdiction by summoning IPS agents to serve under his command.
Referring to a recent letter addressed to the prime minister by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy about the change of the national anthem, the prime minister said that the people of the state will give the party an appropriate response if it goes ahead with such “misfortune”.
In his letter to Modi, Swamy had argued that ‘Jana Gana Mana’ from Tagore, which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on January 24, 1950 as the national anthem of India, neither does it reflect the post-independence Indian reality as it contains ‘Sindh’ (which is now in Pakistan) nor is it clear for whom was it written when the poet composed it. in 1911.
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