All Bangladeshis living in Bengal are Indian citizens, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said during a public meeting that “those who have come from Bangladesh are citizens of India...they have got citizenship. You don't need to apply for citizenship again. You have been casting your votes in elections, electing PM and CM...now they are saying that you are not citizens...don't believe them.”

She also added that no refugee living in the state will be deprived of Indian citizenship.

“We do not want Bengal to turn into another Delhi or another Uttar Pradesh,” she further added.

Yesterday, Banerjee had said that Delhi riots were a “planned genocide.”

While addressing an event at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata she said,”We are sad, and criticize what happened in Delhi. Is it a riot? It’s a planned genocide and later it was called communal. Everyday bodies coming out of drains.”

The words come right after Home Minister Amit Shah had claimed that BJP will get two-thirds majority in Bengal assembly poll.

“Before the Lok Sabha polls, Mamata didi used to say our candidates will lose their deposits. But for the first time, we won 18 of the 42 seats in the state. Mamata didi can see the figures. In the coming assembly polls also, the BJP will get an absolute majority… a two-thirds majority and form the government,” the senior BJP leader said addressing his first public rally in Bengal after the last year’s general elections. Shah said he has seen a lot of political changes in his public career.

It is important to note that in 2019, the Kolkata Police had registered an FIR against Shah in connection with the violence that took place in West Bengal capital during his roadshow.

During a road show of Amit Shah on Tuesday, BJP and TMC supporters fought pitched battles on the streets of Kolkata but Shah escaped unhurt but was forced to cut short the jamboree and had to be escorted to safety by police.

It has been alleged that TMC supporters of Vidyasagar College pelted stones in the convoy of the BJP President after which the city plunged into a welter of violence triggering a clash between the supporters of the two parties.

Several motorcycles which were parked outside the college were vandalized and set ablaze and shards of broken glass littered the lobby of the college where a bust of noted philosopher and a key figure of Bengal Renaissance Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was smashed to smithereens.

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