After meeting PM, Mamata attends CAA dharna

January 11, 2020 18:07

On a two-day visit to West Bengal, PM Narendra Modi met Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata even as protests continue against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

"I told the PM that people in Bengal are not accepting NRC and CAA. You should reconsider it. He has said I am here for other programmes so he asked me to come to Delhi for meeting," she said after the meeting.

After the meeting with PM Modi in which Mamata Banerjee urged a rollback on the amendment to the citizenship law, the West Bengal CM said, "We are against the CAA and NRC and NPR. It should be ensured that no one leaves the country. There should not be atrocities on anyone. The government should re-consider the NRC and the CAA." Banerjee said that during the meeting she also asked for the Rs 28,000 crore flood package that the state is yet to receive from the Centre following Cyclone Bulbul.

"He has assured that he would look into the papers and take the necessary steps," she said.

Following the meeting, Mamata Banerjee reached a protest that is being staged by the Trinamool Congress's student wing, the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, merely 500 metres from Raj Bhavan, to express solidarity with the demonstrators.

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