West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday assured the people that NRC will not be allowed in the state and the BJP would have to get past her if the saffron party wants to touch them.
Urging the people to make sure that their names are in the voters' list, Banerjee accused "local leaders" of the BJP of spreading canards about the possibility of implementing the National Register of Citizens in the state.
"I assure the people of West Bengal that do not worry if you have faith in me. Nobody will have to leave West Bengal. You will continue to stay here as you have been all these years. If they (BJP) want to touch you, they would have to get past Mamata Banerjee first," she told reporters here after reaching the city from New Delhi this evening.
The Trinamool Congress supremo stressed that the NRC was meant for Assam and she went to New Delhi to inform the Home Ministry about the ordeal of the people of that state.
The final NRC, a list of Assam's residents and published on August 31, excluded the names of 19 lakh people.
"I doubt whether it will at all be implemented anywhere else in the country. Like us, Bihar has already said they will not implement it," she said. Asserting that she was, is and will be there to care for the people, the chief minister said she will not allow implementation of the NRC in the State.