6 Died in Bengal due to NRC Panic: CM Mamata Banerjee 

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday pulled up the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for creating panic through a ‘fake campaign’ on the National Register for Citizens (NRC) issue, which she claimed led to the death of six persons in the State. “Shame on the BJP for creating panic over the NRC in Bengal. It has triggered six deaths. Have faith in me, I will never allow the exercise in Bengal,” Mamata Banerjee said. Iterating that her government would never allow any NRC exercise in the state, Banerjee went a step further and asserted that no such process will be undertaken anywhere else in the country as the Assam NRC list was mandated by the Assam Accord of 1985. The Chief Minister also asked the people to get their names registered on the voters’ list as work on its updation was on. Addressing a workers’ rally at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here, Banerjee alleged that the BJP was carrying out a fake campaign on a future NRC list in Bengal as part of its political propaganda. “Leave out Bengal, NRC won’t take place anywhere else. The NRC list published in Assam was mandated by the Assam Accord of 1985. Just because somebody says it will happen, it doesn’t mean such an exercise will take place. They need it (NRC) for their politics, for their political propaganda,” she said. (IANS)

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