Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday received the Centre's notification of the Citizenship Amendment Act with fury calling the exercise BJP's act of deceit and a publicity stunt just before the general elections.

Holding a summary press conference juxtaposing the Central notification of the new Act, Banerjee said that she had not seen the rules thus framed and would definitely protest if there was anything that hit the existing citizenship.

Implementation of the CAA --- that aims to provide citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan --- has been a longstanding demand of the Matuas a refugee community inhabiting a large part of Bengal bordering Bangladesh and having influence on at least five Lok Sabha constituencies and about 50 Assembly seats.

"I have not seen the rules … first let me see them and then I will give my elaborate views from Habra where I will go to morrow," Banerjee said warning "If people are deprived of their rights under the rules, then we will fight against it," Banerjee said adding it was all "an act of deceit and a publicity stunt of the BJP before the elections."

She said also said that in any case she would "never allow NRC in Bengal." Wondering about the necessity of the CAA in India where the people who had properties or have already been taking part in the elections.  "They are making fool of the people as they have failed to fulfill their promises in all other sectors they are hoodwinking the people by bringing this CAA and that too four years after it was passed in Parliament and just before the elections … I don't understand where there is a need for the CAA for the people who already have properties and have been taking part in elections … it is all bunkum," she said.

Bengal would burn if the CAA rules would contain anything that would take away the people's citizenship or properties or any such facilities they enjoyed, she said. Mamata Banerjee's remarks came as the government notified the rules for the implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

She also said that she would never allow NRC to be implemented. "They are trying to divide the people … they are trying to prepare a ground to take away citizenship … but we will not allow this … we will resist their attempts to send people to detention camps … we will not let NRC happen in Bengal," she said.

Meanwhile, people came out on the streets in celebration at Thakurnagar in Bongaon sub-division of North 24 Parganas where the headquarters of the Matua sub-religion lies.

"We are extremely happy and we thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his great act of giving us the citizenship that we have been demanding for a long time," locals said. Matuas an SC community had migrated from Bangladesh in various phases after alleged persecution.