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The West Bengal portion of Bharatiya Janata Party connected Friday (December 26, 2025) targeted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said that by opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, Ms. Banerjee was not simply opposing a law; she was acting against Bengali Hindus.
“By opposing the CAA, Mamata Banerjee was not simply opposing a law, she was acting against Bengali Hindus and against crores of families who suffered torture, brutality, and displacement—families whose members were killed, whose mothers, sisters, and daughters were raped, and who were forced to fly their homeland, leaving down each their spot and dignity,” the W.B. portion of BJP posted connected societal media.
The remarks by the BJP comes astatine a clip erstwhile Bangladesh is connected the boil and the enactment is raising the contented of attacks connected Hindus successful the neighbouring country. The West Bengal portion of the BJP besides claimed that 1.13 crore Hindus near Bangladesh betwixt 1964 and 2013.
“When Narendra Modi ji introduced the CAA to supply alleviation to specified families who had faced spiritual persecution, Mamata Banerjee opposed it with her afloat force, purely to appease a ballot bank. At the aforesaid time, she has shown willingness to let amerciable Bangladeshi Muslims and Rohingyas to stay successful the country,” the societal media station said.
The Trinamool Congress retorted the claims of the BJP by saying that CAA was ne'er astir citizenship. “It was a governmental instrumentality to artifact with people’s aspirations, the precise radical you person present betrayed done SIR, carried retired successful cahoots with the ECI,” the West Bengal’s ruling enactment said.
The Trinamool Congress challenged the “BJP to uncover the nonstop fig of radical granted citizenship nether CAA”.
“Since 2019, you person weaponised the committedness of citizenship arsenic bait to dupe and deceive susceptible communities. Your Home Ministry dragged its feet for years, taking hold aft hold conscionable to framework the CAA rules. You dredged up the contented again earlier the 2024 elections, the power-hungry opportunists you person ever been,” the TMC posted from its societal media handles.
Passed successful 2019, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) provided opportunities for amerciable migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan who are Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, oregon Christian to registry nether Indian citizens who person entered India connected oregon earlier December 31, 2014. The rules of CAA were passed successful 2024 but determination are nary figures disposable connected however galore radical person applied for citizenship nether the Act.
