The Trinamool Congress has hit out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s alleged “attempt” to re-invoke Citizenship Amendment Act ahead of the general elections.
“For the past 3-4 years they were silent on the Act but suddenly when the elections are arriving the BJP is trying to dig up the CAA from the grave in an apparent bid to garner votes,” Bengal Trinamool Congress vice president Jayprakash Majumdar said adding “despite Amit Shah’s attempt to misuse an irrelevant and useless law in order to gain some votes the BJP will badly lose the coming elections.”
His party colleague and spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said “no matter how many times the BJP central leaders visit Bengal to disturb the State communally they will not be able to cross single digit mark in the coming elections.” Ghosh said, “Shah and his colleagues would come and go but the end result will be a steady drop in the number of seats that they got last time.”
With a large number of Left voters swinging their way the BJP had witnessed a massive jump in their seat tally in 2019 general elections when they won 18 out of 42 seats whereas the TMC got 22 and the Congress supported by the Left won 2. The Marxists for the first time since Independence drew a blank.
Speaking on the issue senior TMC leader and minister Firhad Hakim too reminded 2021 Assembly elections saying, “the entire top BJP leadership had assembled in Kolkata … they came and went like daily passengers and an impression was created that they would get more than 200 seats … but our leader Mamata Banerjee alone took on their entire team of heavyweights and BJP ended up getting only 78 seats … hence no amount of CAA, social media campaign or whatever tricks Amit Shah ji and JP Nadda ji are giving to their foot soldiers will not work.”
The Home Minister had in a closed-door organizational meeting on Tuesday told the BJP workers that CAA was a reality and that no one would be able to stop it from being implemented.
Accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading the people on CAA Shah said, “Didi is misleading the people but let me tell you that CAA is a law passed by the Parliament and is a reality … now no one can stop it from being implemented … where is the problem if our brothers --- who have been pushed out of neighbouring countries … who have fled those countries because they were being forced to change their religion --- are given citizenship … they will definitely get citizenship and no one can stop it.”
Shah also asked the BJP workers to tell the people about the corrupt regime Banerjee was running. “There is a scam or two in every department … 12 years ago when the TMC came to power removing the Left Front people were relieved that the communists had gone out of power … but today Mamata Banerjee is running such a government that people have started to tell that even the Left were far better than them,” he said.
