Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Friday the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government will not allow implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state.
“The implementation of the NRC as nothing but a political vendetta of the BJP-led central government,” Mamata Banerjee told the West Bengal Assembly. “We will never let BJP implement the NRC in West Bengal. This (NRC implementation) is nothing but an attempt to divert the attention of the people from the ongoing economic crisis in the country,” asserted Mamata Banerjee.
“There is nobody in the country to speak against the BJP in the country, but we will not allow NRC to happen in West Bengal,” Banerjee added.
It should be stated here that Assam is the only state in India where NRC has been implemented. The final list was published August 31.
In another development Mamata Banerjee criticised the manner in which former Union Minister P Chidambaram was sent to Tihar jail in the INX Media case. According to her the Centre should have shown him ‘minimum respect’.
“I don’t know what is there in the Chidambaram case. Law will take its own course. But what is the purpose of keeping him Tihar jail like an ordinary prisoner? They (Centre) should have shown minimum respect to him,” Banerjee said.
Agencies