Whereas Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, who addressed a number of public rallies in north Bengal, insisted that the Act could be applied overriding the state’s defiance, CM Mamata Banerjee mentioned she would by no means permit this.TMC common secretary Abhishek Banerjee dared the Centre to problem a proper notification that NRC wouldn’t comply with CAA.
Talking at a rally in Murshidabad, Singh mentioned: “CAA is supposed to provide citizenship to those that left international locations like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan for spiritual causes. Mamata Banerjee and her social gathering could oppose it. However CAA shall be applied within the nation at any price.”
Rajnath mentioned it was unlucky that inter-religion tensions have been being nurtured by the governing social gathering in Bengal, the land of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. “There’s anarchy in Bengal,” he mentioned.
Banerjee, talking at Kumarganj, mentioned: “They (BJP) are questioning my authority to problem CAA and NRC. Who’re they to query me? What authority have they got to implement it unilaterally? After I mentioned that we’d not permit the implementation of CAA and NRC, I meant it. They tried to implement NRC in Assam. TMC was the one social gathering to oppose it.”