Kolkata: The BJP and the Central governing administration are hoping to confuse the Matua inhabitants concentrated primarily in West Bengal by notifying the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed on Saturday.
“The Centre and Primary Minister Narendra Modi are bewildering our Matua brothers. The implementation of CAA and implementing for it does not mean computerized granting of citizenship. There are several uncertainties even immediately after that,” the Chief Minister said through an election conference at Chakdaha in Nadia district, which has a sizable Matua inhabitants.
To remember, the Centre on March 11 notified the Citizenship (Amendment) Regulations 2024, so paving the way for implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which seeks to grant Indian citizenship to persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan just before December 31, 2014.
The news activated celebrations amid the members of the Matua community, a backward-class Hindu group which arrived to West Bengal as refugees from neighbouring Bangladesh, and type a sizable population in the point out.
“Five several years back again, the BJP managed to secure the Matua votes in the identify of CAA. The party experienced then promised to grant citizenships by CAA. But those people ended up all lies. Now they are indicating you should utilize by means of the CAA variety. Even right after that, there is no assure of obtaining citizenship. In circumstance you are not granted citizenship, you will be despatched to the detention camps,” she mentioned.
“They experimented with to do the similar detail in Assam. I will not allow for the implementation of CAA in West Bengal as long as I am alive,” the Chief Minister reported.