Any forced implementation of National Register for Citizens in Bengal will help Mamata Banerjee in the ultimate run, the ruling Trinamool Congress feels. Senior Bengal Minister Subroto Mukherjee on Thursday said that it would be a political blunder for the BJP-ruled Centre to implement NRC in Bengal.
“If the BJP tries to force NRC in Bengal it will a big political blunder committed by them,” Mukherjee one of the founder members of the TMC said adding “the BJP will not only lose the advantage it extracted in the Lok Sabha polls but also it will be routed in the Assembly elections.”
The people irrespective of caste and religion had become highly skeptic of the NRC after its “fraudulent implementation” in Assam where the future of more than 19 lakh people is in stake, he said.
“In Bengal if they try to implement NRC then it will go in favour of the Trinamool Congress. Its implementation will turn out to be a hundred percent gain for Mamata Banerjee,” the septuagenarian Minister said.
The TMC’s views found reflection in the Left Front camp too as State Left Legislature party member and CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakrabarty said, “NRC will not be accepted by the people of Bengal. Whole State will oppose it tooth and nail.”
On the BJP leaders’ repeated assertion in favour of NRC should that party came to power in the State Chakrabarty said, “it is the political build up against NRC that the Centre has been forced to retrace its step saying they will consider introducing it post 2024.
In fact the Left will resist NRC tooth and nail. We will prepare the entire population of the State against the enlarging black shadow of NRC.”
On the Delhi’s move to construct detention centres throughout the country, Chakrabarty said let them try and build one in Bengal. I can assure you that the people of the State will smash all those illegal structures designed after concentration camp of Hitler.”
Reacting to the TMC and Left leaders’ statement BJP leader Mukul Roy said that there was no escaping NRC in Bengal. “Implementation of NRC is a foregone conclusion. The people want NRC in Bengal.” Any such move would take place “in line with the United Nation’s regulations.”
