Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has reiterated that the movement against the “cruel and discriminatory” Citizenship Amendment Act will continue till the Central Government rolls it back.
The Chief Minister on Monday joined the sit-in demonstration of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad, the Bengal ruling outfit’s students’ arm, congratulated the students for carrying on their dharna and asked them to continue with their stir till the Central Governmentdid not take the “black law” back.
“I congratulate you all for your tenacity … that you have been sitting in this demonstration site for the past several weeks for a right cause … I have a number of engagements that is keeping me busy but still I will keep coming back to the dharna site whenever I get time.
But I will implore student colleagues to continue with their movement against this cruel and discriminatory law until it is taken back by the Central Government,” Banerjee said.
The Trinamool Congress also attacked the Central Government and the BJP for trying to divert the people’s attention from the real issues by dividing the society.
Attacking the saffron party for intimidating the Opposition into silence TMC MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy said that as the present Government had failed to address the real issues it was trying to divert the attention of the people.
Referring to the incidents of firing at Saheen Bag and Jamia Millia University the TMC leader said the government has suffered a moral loss in its bid to enforce the “undemocratic CAA” and now “its leaders are trying to scare away the protesters by instigating firing incidents.”
He said that the saffron party “came to power by promising acchhe din (good days), jobs, price reductions and development but failed to fulfill its promises in all fronts. And now in order to cloak its failures it is dividing the society and organizing violence.”
In Kolkata TMC leader and Mayor Firhad Hakim said the BJP was digging its own ditch for the coming days. “They had come to power by promising development. But instead of developing India they are dividing it. They will have to reap the ‘harvest’ in future. They are digging their own ditch and will fall in it. The people of India are uniting and they will bring about their downfall.”