Mamta said - I will give my life, but I will not let go of citizenship

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has targeted BJP on the issue of the Citizenship Amendment Act. During a rally in Krishnanagar, Nadia, Mamta said that she will give her life, but will not let anyone's citizenship go. BJP makes CAA an issue in elections itself. BJP has not done anything to date. They make false promises in elections, elections are just a joke for them. BJP has raised the issue of CAA as soon as elections come. After the elections are over, they do politics of religious discrimination and division.
Addressing the Nadia community at the rally, 'Matua is a citizen of this place. If you are not a citizen then I am also not a citizen. If you are a citizen here, don't let anyone take away your citizenship. Mamta Banerjee is on a three-day Nadia tour.
Panchayat elections are to be held in West Bengal, in such a situation, the issue of CAA has once again heated up in the state. On Monday, Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal arrived here to attend the annual convention of Matua. During this, he promised to give citizenship to all under CAA. Amit Shah has also often spoken about implementing CAA in the entire country. According to media reports, BJP can implement CAA in the entire country in December itself.
TMC leaders and ministers have repeatedly spoken about not allowing CAA to be implemented in the state. According to media reports, the Bengal government may bring a condemnation motion against the CAA in the winter session of the Assembly. The winter session of the Bengal Legislative Assembly is starting on November 18.
When the CAA law was enacted in the country in 2019, it was opposed across the country. Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area was the focal point of the movement against this law. The law made the rules of citizenship law easier for migrants of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religions from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Earlier it was necessary to stay in India for 11 years for citizenship, this time was reduced from 1 to 6 years.
On 11 December 2019, 125 votes were cast in the Rajya Sabha in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 (CAB) and 99 against it. The next day on 12 December 2019, it got the assent of the President. The bill had taken the form of law after it was passed by both houses amid huge protests across the country. It was introduced in Lok Sabha by Home Minister Amit Shah on 9 December.
The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 (CAA) was introduced in 2016. In this, some changes had to be made in the 1955 Act. These changes were to give citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from India's three Muslim neighbours Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 12 August 2016. The committee submitted its report on 7 January 2019.
There is a rule of parliamentary procedure that if a bill is passed in the Lok Sabha and not passed in the Rajya Sabha, and in the meantime if the term of the Lok Sabha ends, the bill does not remain in effect. It is necessary to pass it again in both houses. Because of this, this law had to be passed again in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in 2019.
This bill was in controversy even before it came to the Lok Sabha, but when it became a law, its opposition intensified after that. Demonstrations were held in many areas of Delhi. On the night of 23 February 2020, the violence that broke out after the gathering of the crowd at the Jaffrabad metro station turned into riots. Riots broke out in about 15 areas of Delhi. Many people were killed, and many people were attacked and killed with sharp weapons like knives and swords. More than 50 people died in these riots. Hundreds were injured.