Centre Confusing People in name of CAA: Mamata Banerjee

31 Jan 2023 Evaluate

West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee today alleged that the BJP-led central government is ‘confusing people’ in the name of implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

Banerjee stated that she and her party Trinamool Congress have been taking care of the Matuas (whose roots are in Bangladesh) for a long time, but during the polls, BJP trying to approach them as a ‘friend’ in the name of the CAA. Banerjee also accused the BJP-led central government of ‘not releasing’ the state's dues. She said, Centre owe over Rs 1 lakh crore to Bengal and also urged the centre to settle its dues. Referring to river erosion mostly in the districts of Malda and Murshidabad of West Bengal, Banerjee said that the central government has ‘stopped looking into the matter’. ‘Our biggest challenge now is to arrest river erosion; the Centre is not taking care of it anymore. We are supposed to get Rs 700 crore from them,’ she added.

The CAA facilitates the grant of citizenship to migrants belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain, and Parsi communities who came to the country from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. But as the rules under the Act have not been framed by the government yet, no one so far could be granted citizenship under it.

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