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Mamata Banerjee Has No Faith In Institutions Of India: Nirmala Sitharaman

Mumbai: BJP leader and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman slammed West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for demanding United Nations intervention on Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the FM questioned the TMC chief’s faith over the national institutions.

“We never wanted the intervention of third parties or international forums in our affairs. On a purely domestic matter, she has chosen to ask the United Nation. Do they have any faith in India’s institutions?”, Sitharaman said while talking to ANI.

“I totally condemn her statement. And it is irresponsible of a chief minister to talk like that,” she added.

Sitharaman’s statement comes after Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded that an “impartial organisation” like the United Nations should form a committee to see how many people were in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Act.

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Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which seeks to grant citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

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