West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday had staged a mega rally to protest against Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens Bill.
Addressing the rally, Mamata Banerjee said she would not implement CAA as it was unconstitutional and divisive in law. To oppose the act, she held a massive rally in Kolkata.
The reasons for this protest rally is not far to fetch. Actually, she is agitated over the latest developments in the state, where several illegal Bangladeshi immigrants living in India are returning to their country, fearing that they would be detained in detention camps after the implementation of NRC.
Such incidents are making headlines in Bangladeshi newspapers and television channels. Dhaka Tribune, a Bangladeshi newspaper, reported that as many as 203 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from India were arrested by Border Guards Bangladesh.
These immigrants were entering Bangladesh illegally from the Jinahidaho Maheshpur India-Bangladesh border.
Sources in BSF also stated that at least 15-20 illegal immigrants are crossing over to Bangladesh on a daily basis.
"The reverse migration of illegal Bangladeshis has increased in the last few days. We have information that every day, people are crossing over to Bangladesh and they are using the porous border in North 24 Parganas area of Basirhat and Bongaon, and the border in Nadia district to cross over. Some reports are also coming in from Malda in West Bengal," The Sunday Guardian reported quoting a highly-placed source in BSF.
The BSF source also said many immigrants living illegally in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi and Assam, are fleeing to Bangladesh.
Mamata's Dreams Dashed
These illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, who were given aadhar and pan numbers illegally, form a huge vote-bank for Mamata Banerjee. If they return to Bangladesh, it would spell doom to TMC's political prospects, when West Bengal goes for elections in 2021.
To stop this catastrophe, Mamata Banerjee has been making all kinds of political posturings to save her chair. She spread lies about CAA and NRC, creating fears in Muslims that they would lose their citizenship.
Soon after she came to know of the reverse immigration of Bangladeshis from all parts of the country, Mamata Banerjee kicked up a campaign by giving illegal ads in private channels, urging Bangladeshi immigrants not to leave India, as she would not allow CAA and NRC to be implemented in the state.
She also held a massive protest in Kolkata in this regard, but to he dismay, the following morning, Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen assurance to welcome the illegal immigrants from India, if the Indian government provided them a list.
With this assurance, the passing of NRC in the Parliament and deporting illegal Bangladeshi nationals has only become imminent.
The people, on the other hand, are watching the opposition's drama unfold, from the sidelines. They very well know Mamata Banerjee does not have any power, under the Union List of seventh schedule of the Indian constitution, to stall CAA in the state.
The only option Mamata Banerjee is to gracefully accept the law and understand that India is not a charitable centre where anybody can cross over, stay and exercise their illegal voting rights to form governments.
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