CAA to Be Implemented, No Plans For NRC Exercise in Bengal: Kailash Vijayvargiya We do not have any plan of conducting the NRC exercise, even if we win the elections, he said.
Kailash Vijayvargiya. Photo: PTI
Kolkata: In an interview to
PTI, Kailash Vijayvargiya, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national general secretary, said that if voted to power in Bengal, the party will not take up any exercise to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and said the opposition Trinamool Congress was wrong in saying that the party will be “taking away the citizenship rights of people”.
The party’s Bengal minder, however, said that BJP intends to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and provide rights to (non-Muslim) refugees who fled religious persecution in neighbouring countries and moved to India.
We will move the court over it. This is unacceptable, Mamata Banerjee had said.
New Delhi:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s conduct at a polling booth in Nandigram last week is under scanner, the Election Commission has indicated, dismissing her allegations of disruption of polling at the booth.
Calling Ms Banerjee s handwritten complaint factually incorrect and devoid of substance , the Commission said it is contemplating action under the relevant sections of the Model Code of Conduct and the Representation of the People Act.
Ms Banerjee has been in a collision course with the Commission since it ordered an unprecedented, marathon eight-phase election in Bengal and replaced the state police chief. She has accused it of partisanship under orders of Union Home Minister Amit Shah - an accusation the Commission has vehemently denied.
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Countering opposition claims that the BJP, if voted to power in Bengal, will update the National Register of Citizens (NRC), thereby taking away the citizenship rights of people , Kailash Vijayvargiya, the saffron camp s national general secretary, on Sunday reaffirmed that no such plan is on the radar. He, however, stated that the party intends to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and provide rights to refugees who fled religious persecution in neighbouring countries and moved to India. We are only looking forward to implementing the CAA after the elections, as promised in the manifesto. It is an important issue for us, as we strive to grant citizenship to the persecuted refugees. We do not have any plan of conducting the NRC exercise, even if we win the elections, he said.
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the BJP of engineering communal strife in the state to win the Assembly elections.
The TMC chief, while addressing an election rally in Raidighi in South 24 Parganas district, also called upon Muslims not to fall in the trap of a BJP-aided party from Hyderabad and its Bengal ally that are out to polarise votes.
Her jibe was apparently aimed at Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM and Abbas Siddiqui s ISF. Both Owaisi and Siddiqui had earlier denied the TMC s insinuations. The ISF is fighting the elections in alliance with the CPI(M) and the Congress.