Mamata Banerjee mentioned that these individuals have already been given all rights as residents.
Baduria/Hingalganj/Bijpur: Accusing the BJP of giving false guarantees to the members of the politically important Matua group on citizenship, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed that these individuals have already been given all rights as residents.
Ms Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, claimed that if the saffron get together is voted to energy, it’s going to preserve the individuals of West Bengal in detention camps because it has executed to “14 lakh Bengalis” in Assam.
“Your Didi (the CM herself) has already ensured citizenship proper of the Matuas by facilitating land deed to each refugee occupying authorities or personal lands. Why is the citizenship difficulty being raked up once more?” she mentioned at public conferences held in North 24 Parganas district.
Matuas, initially from East Pakistan, are a weaker part of Hindus who migrated to India in the course of the Partition and after the creation of Bangladesh.
The Matua group, with an estimated inhabitants of three million within the state, can tilt the scales in favour of a political get together in additional than 30 meeting seats in Nadia, and North and South 24 Parganas districts bordering Bangladesh.
It as soon as stood behind the TMC however had supported the BJP within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The BJP is saying that it’ll present citizenship to them if voted to energy.
“In case your (Matua’s) youngsters examine in instructional institutes, if in case you have electrical energy and phone connection in your title and tackle, you’re already a citizen. How can the BJP promise you citizenship once more?” Ms Banerjee mentioned at Baduria.
She mentioned that her authorities has declared a vacation on the birthday of Harichand Thakur, the non secular guru of the Matuas, however the saffron get together didn’t do it in states dominated by it.
The BJP is shedding crocodile tears for the backward group to win votes, the Trinamool Chief claimed.
A couple of individuals from the Matua group are spreading misinformation to assist the BJP, she alleged.
“The (West Bengal) authorities is inclusive. It has tried to achieve out to each group and sect,” the chief minister mentioned.
At one other ballot assembly in Bijpur, she referred to the allowance given to each Durga puja committee, and stipends offered to Hindu clergymen and Imams.
“We do not discriminate. We attain out to each group not like the BJP which solely sow the seeds of discord,” Ms Banerjee mentioned.
Accusing the saffron get together of conspiring to maintain individuals of the state in detention camps, she mentioned, “Should you do not wish to share the destiny of 14 lakh Bengalis in Assam, if you don’t need your names to be deleted from electoral rolls following the train of NPR (Nationwide Inhabitants Register), stop the BJP from coming to energy.”
