Political slugfest continues

At a time when BJP national president JP Nadda is on a visit to West Bengal to take part in Parivartan Yatra, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee cried foul against the BJP-led Central government at a public rally in Thakurnagar to woo the Matuas. Matuas have a 3 crore population and are considered to be one of the most important deciding factors for the polls. Banerjee on Thursday said that the saffron camp will never implement CAA as the BJP knows the claim of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is true and the Matuas are already the citizens of India.

“How can BJP give you citizenship when you’re already a citizen of this country? Don’t you have voter cards? Didn’t you vote in the last general election? They took votes of the people and now saying that these people are illegal," he said. Meanwhile, furthering the saffron camp’s poll campaign, Nadda from Kolkata launched the party’s new outreach program ‘Lokkho Sonar Bangla’ (Target Golden Bangla) before visiting the ancestral house of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in Naihati.