“I was the first to launch an Andolan against CAA NRC, What the Left and the Congress are doing is not a movement but vandalism”, Banerjee said
KOLKATA| On Thursday Mamta Banerjee surprised by cornering herself from the campaign by a United opposition against the citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Ms Banerjee said her Trinamool Congress party will not participate in a meeting called by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Monday.
Ms Banerjee criticize the left and Congress of playing “dirty politics”. The Bengal Chief Minister said she will oppose the CAA and NRC alone.
While addressing a special session of Bengal assembly Mamata Banerjee said, “Due to the politics of opposition in state, in contradiction with their all India stance, I have decided not to attend the anti-CAA and NRC meeting on January 13”.
“I was the first to launch an Andolan against CAA NRC, What the Left and the Congress are doing in the name of the CAA-NRC is not a movement but vandalism”, she said.
She told leaders of other opposition in Delhi to “forgive her” for not attending the meeting as “it was me who had mooted the idea.”
Following the clashes between her party men and Left workers during a strike called by Left trade unions, especially in Malda’s Sujapur, Banerjee said, “But what happened yesterday in the state it is no more possible for me to attend the meeting anymore”.
Mamta Banerjee said her fight against the CAA would continue and she would never allow this law and the NRC in Bengal.
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The CPM asked the Chief Minister to bring a resolution against the CAA and NRC in the assembly, to which Ms Banerjee said she had already voiced her opposition before and did not feel the need to pass a resolution now.
“You don’t need to tell me how to fight CAA,” the Chief Minister declared, shouting above the roar of protests from the CPM and Congress.
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