A police complaint was filed against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists in Assam after she slammed the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) and warned of a “civil war and bloodbath” over it.
Approximately 40 lakh people living in Assam for years do not find their names in the NRC final draft. The Opposition parties protested outside Parliament yesterday over this and the Trinamool Congress chief went for an all out attack against the Centre for the way the list has left out so many people.
The government though has assured that the people left out will be given the chance to prove their citizenship, and that the list is the final “draft”.
Banerjee was accused of inciting “hate and tension” among communities through her comment in Delhi yesterday. The complaint was filed by three workers of the BJP youth wing in Assam’s Dibrugarh.
Meanwhile, BJP president Amit Shah said Banerjee was creating confusion with her statements.
In Uttar Pradesh, the state’s deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma has warned Mamata Banerjee to not bring “caste or religion into the matter”, it was reported by ANI.
While addressing a gathering in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad, he said the Trinamool will soon lose support in Bengal and the lotus would bloom there instead. “She knows this, so she is levelling the allegations,” he said.
