TMC, Congress And Left Front Bring Joint Resolution In West Bengal, BJP Calls It “Anti-National”
Mumbai: The ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition Congress and left front have decided to bring a joint resolution in the West Bengal assembly in order to oppose the NRC in Assam.
“For the last two days, the Trinamool Congress was hesitant to allow us (Congress and Left Front) to bring a resolution against the NRC in Assam. They have agreed today. Now it has been decided that the ruling TMC and the opposition Congress and Left Front will bring the resolution jointly on Friday. There will be a discussion on it,” Leader of the opposition Abdul Mannan of the Congress said.
“The entire exercise on NRC in Assam was done as per orders of the Supreme Court. BJP had nothing to do with it except that it supported the exercise which was executed to drive out infiltrators from Assam. It was in the national interest, but TMC is opposing it just to appease its minority vote bank,” BJP state vice-president Jay Prakash Majumdar said.
“We will oppose the resolution tooth and nail in the floor of the assembly. We don’t have the numbers but we will register our protest. Both Mamata Banerjee and the Congress has forgotten their past – that they had opposed illegal Bangladeshi infiltration,” he said.
“This is why TMC has taken such an anti-national stand by opposing NRC. Congress too should not forget it was Rajiv Gandhi who as prime minister had signed the Assam Accord in 1985, in which NRC was one of the main clauses. But now it is opposing NRC,” Majumdar said.
“The NRC has been published keeping in mind national security to drive out infiltrators. If the TMC, Congress and Left Front are opposing it then they are working against the interests of the country,” he added.
The entire exercise is against the NRC in Assam where over 19 lakh people are now left stateless after Assam released the final NRC. Amidst the political rivalries all over the nation, the question prevails that what will happen to the 1.9 million people left ‘stateless’ in Assam.
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