"With polls nearing, CAA-NRC topics being brought in market for polarisation": Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Jan 30, 2024
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 30 : Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhury on Tuesday said that since the date of the Lok Sabha elections is approaching, topics such as the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the NRC are being brought into the market with great effect to create polarisation of votes.
Addressing a press conference in Kolkata, West Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Choudhury said," When elections are coming, will topics such as the NRC and CAA remain silent? To polarise elections, such topics are being brought into the market, and this pace will increase in the upcoming days. There are a lot of answers regarding the legislation that are kept in the dark by the BJP."
The remarks came after West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar said that he was hopeful that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) would be implemented before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
"I am hopeful that the CAA will be implemented before the 2024 elections. We have complete faith in our Union Home Minister. If Amit Shah has said he will implement the CAA, then he will definitely do it. It is not under Mamata Banerjee's jurisdiction," he said.
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari also said that CAA, which has been the demand of Hindu refugees since 1945, is going to be fulfilled.
He added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have committed to its implementation, and the time has come to fulfil it.
Notably, Parliament passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 on December 11, 2019.
Bill seeks to grant Indian Citizenship to persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities on grounds of religious persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
