Mamata won't be able to stop citizenship act: BJP's Dilip Ghosh

December 14, 2019 12:05

West Bengal will be the first state where the Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented, the BJP has said, as chief minister Mamata Banerjee went on a collision course with the Centre over the newly-passed legislation.

Mamata Banerjee is one of the five chief ministers who is campaigning against changes in the citizenship law and declared that they may not implement it.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was among the first to declare that his state would not implement the new citizenship law which it considers to be unconstitutional. Punjab and West Bengal soon followed.

On Friday, chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Kamal Nath and Bhupesh Baghel also issued similar statements against the law, which will grant Indian citizenship to immigrants of faiths other than Islam from the three neighbouring countries on the ground that they came to India due to religious persecution because they are minorities.

The chief of the Bharatiya Janata Partys Bengal unit, Dilip Ghosh warned Mamata Banerjee that neither she nor her Trinamool Congress party will be able to stop it.

Ghoshs comments came after Banerjee, one of the most vocal opponents of the amended citizenship act, said at a press conference that she will not allow the new law to be implemented in her state under any circumstances.

Banerjee also said the BJP will not be able to bulldoze the states into enacting the new law.

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