In a counter-drive against anti-CAA campaign launched by the Opposition parties the Bengal unit of BJP has launched a massive door-to-door campaign to hammer home the utility of the Citizenship Amendment Act and drive away the alleged misgivings regarding the amended citizenship laws.
“Senior State leaders like BJP general secretary Rahul Sinha on Sunday went house to house to clear the air on CAA,” party sources said adding similar campaigns were also being carried out in districts of North and South Bengal.
“Contrary to the general perception fanned by the TMC, Congress and the Left that CAA is a mischievous device to victimize the Muslim population and the non-BJP population it is in fact a positive Act that will complete the work left undone by the post Independence Governments and their leaders,” a senior State BJP leader said adding “the people are now convinced that the TMC is falsely generating a fear psychosis among the masses.”
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh said his party members were getting massive response from the citizens who want the Act to be thoroughly implemented in all parts of the State. “Our people have been visiting houses and the people are giving overwhelming response to the changed laws.
“In East and West Midnapore we have been particularly receiving good response from the people,” he said adding the “popular response in receiving the BJP cadres was so much that the TMC goons resorted to vandalism and using physical force to stop and scare our workers away. They attacked and vandalized our party offices. But we will not get intimidated by their strong arm tactic.”
The ruling Trinamool Congress too went about collecting signatures from people to register their complaints against the controversial laws. “Let the BJP go house to house, let them go room to room but they will not succeed misleading the people about the true nature of t he CAA which is in fact a poison sweet laced with poison being offered to the people,” said TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee.
“The people initially were carried away by their communal campaigns which gave them 18 seats in the parliamentary elections but the CAA has proved how dangerous the BJP is and what dangerous designs they really have,” said Bengal Minister Jyotipriya Mullick.
“Interpreting the massive turnout in Mamata Banerjee’s mass rallies against the CAA we can say that BJP will be wiped out in the coming elections,” the Minister said.
Meanwhile, the Left Front and the Congress which have jointly called a general strike against a host of issues including CAA-NRC have warned the Chief Minister against any bid to foil the bandh.
“If the Chief Minister is genuinely against the CAA and if her public rallies are not a public pretense then she will not use force to thwart the strike — which she has been doing for the past so many years to gag the working class people’s voices,” said CPI(M) Legislature Party leader Sujan Chakrabarty.