Every Bangladeshi living in West Bengal is an Indian citizen: Mamta
Kaliaganj: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that all the people from Bangladesh who are voting in the elections are Indian citizens and there is no need to apply for fresh citizenship.
Banerjee criticized the Modi government’s way of dealing with communal riots in Delhi and said that she would not allow West Bengal to become another Delhi. “People from Bangladesh are citizens of India … they have citizenship,” he said in a public meeting here. You do not need to re-apply for citizenship.
You are choosing the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister by voting in the election … and now they are saying that you are not a citizen … Do not believe them. “Banerjee insisted that he does not exclude even a man from Bengal Will remove
He said that no refugee living in the state would be denied citizenship.
Targeting the central government on the Delhi violence issue, he said, “Don’t forget that this is Bengal.” Whatever happened in Delhi will not be allowed to happen here. We do not want Bengal to become another Delhi or another Uttar Pradesh. “BJP has been accusing Mamata of ‘appeasing Muslims’ and ‘vote bank politics’.