Krishnanagar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday ridiculed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) target of winning more than 400 seats in the Lok Sabha elections and challenged it to cross the 200 seat mark. Mamta also said that she will not allow the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to be implemented in this state.
He warned people that anyone applying for CAA will become a foreigner. He requested people not to apply for this.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo said, “BJP is saying ‘cross 400’, I challenge them to cross the 200 seat mark first.” He had called for more than 200 seats in the 2021 assembly elections, but he had to stop at just 77.
“The CAA is a trap to turn legal citizens into foreigners,” he said while addressing his first rally since his injury earlier this month. We will neither allow CAA nor National Register of Citizens to be implemented in West Bengal.
Mamata criticized the opposition alliance ‘India’ constituents – Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Congress – for ‘joining hands with the BJP’ in West Bengal.
“There is no ‘India’ alliance in West Bengal,” he said at an election rally in Krishnanagar in support of TMC candidate Mahua Moitra. CPI(M) and Congress are working for the BJP in Bengal. Our MP Mahua Moitra was defamed and expelled from the Lok Sabha because she was vocal against the BJP, he said.
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Tags: Loksabha Election 2024, Loksabha Elections
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 31, 2024, 16:26 IST