BJP threatening individuals to send out ED, CBI to their homes if they do not choose celebration: Mamata Banerjee

COOCH BEHAR/SILIGURI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday implicated the BJP of threatening individuals to send out main probe firms to their homes if they do not choose the saffron celebration in the upcoming Lok Sabha surveys. The TMC supremo recommended residents in Cooch Behar, especially Rajbanshis, to make sure that their names are on the citizens’ list to “secure themselves” from the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA. “The BJP is utilizing main firms for elections … it is threatening individuals over the phone to send out Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths to their homes if they do not elect the saffron celebration,” Banerjee stated at a public circulation program here. The West Bengal chief minister likewise asserted that she will not follow any diktat of the BJP to praise any specific god. “I follow Ramayana, Quran, Bible and Guru Granth Sahib … I do refrain from doing drama by checking out bad individuals’s homes to consume food brought from outdoors,” she stated. While describing the ethnic violence in BJP-ruled Manipur, she declared that over 200 churches have actually been gutted and numerous ladies paraded naked throughout the strife in the northeastern state. “In Manipur, they have actually set on fire 200 churches and females were paraded naked,” she declared, including that the Christmas vacation was likewise cancelled. Banerjee declared that the Centre is raising the concern of CAA to do politics before the Lok Sabha surveys. “They (BJP) have actually once again begun to discuss CAA. This is absolutely nothing however politics. We have actually provided citizenship to everybody (and) they (individuals in border locations) are getting whatever. They are residents, which is why they are permitted to vote,” she stated. Previously in the day, Union minister and BJP leader Shantanu Thakur declared that the CAA will be carried out throughout India within the next 7 days. “Within the next week, CAA will be carried out not just in West Bengal, however likewise throughout the nation,” Thakur stated at a public conference in Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas district. Banerjee, while speaking at the program in Cooch Behar, likewise implicated the BSF of “abusing individuals and releasing different identity cards to individuals living in border locations”. She warned residents not to accept such identity cards from the BSF, else they would “fall under the NRC trap”. “The BSF is abusing individuals … it is attempting to provide different identity cards to individuals residing in border locations. Never ever accept these cards. “If they ask you, inform them you have Aadhaar and provision cards and do not require any other cards. If you accept th
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