Will bring resolution against CAA: Bengal
KOLKATA/SILIGURI: After Kerala and Punjab, the West Bengal government, too, has decided to pass a resolution demanding the withdrawal of the amended citizenship law.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee also appealed to her counterparts in the northeast and nonBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) states to study the National Population Register (NPR) form, its questions and criteria carefully, before taking a decision on updating it. “For CAA, we will pass a resolution within three to four days. We passed a resolution against CAB and National Register of Citizens (NRC). At that time, CAB was bill. Now, it is a law.
So, we will pass a resolution demanding its withdrawal,” Banerjee told the media at the Kolkata airport, before leaving for north Bengal where she is scheduled to address anti-CAA rallies till January 24.
Earlier this month, the Trinamool Congress had prevented the passage of an anti-CAA resolution in the state Assembly, even as the Congress and the CPI(M) pitched for it. The CM had then reasoned that the House had adopted a resolution against a pan-Indian NRC in September last year. Congress legislator and leader of the opposition in the Bengal assembly, Abdul Mannan said, “It (the proposed resolution) is our baby.
When we moved it, TMC criticised us. Banerjee has taken the decision because her credibility in the battle against CAA has come under question.”
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bengal unit vice president Jay Prakash Majumdar hit out the TMC chief by saying, “She (Banerjee) has the majority in the assembly and hence can pass any resolution, including one that may say that none of the accused in the Narada probe can be arrested.