Mamata regime does not want effective border fencing: BJP MP Dilip Ghosh

"Our international border is not safe (in Bengal)....There is no proper barbed wire fencing and so infiltrators keep coming into our state. The state government does not want that the state is safe," Mr Ghosh alleged while participating in the debate on Motion of Thanks to President's address.

"The Modi government has given enough to this country....But for people of West Bengal, what is of much significance is this new Citizenship law," he asserted.

"Lakhs of people had come into this country to save their honour and dignity, they came to India to protect the dignity of their women members in the family. They did not come for low priced ration," he said amid repeated objections by several Trinamool Congress MPs.

Mr Ghosh said right from Mahatma Gandhi to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, leaders from various parties have favoured such a law. "No body brought it....Our party's founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee has sacrificed his life and dedicated himself to work for refugees. It was in order to serve these people that he had resigned from Pt Nehru's cabinet," he said.

Fulfilling these assurances, Mr Ghosh said, Prime Minister Modi's government has taken this historic step and brought in the CAA.

"These refugees have also made sacrifices for country's freedom. Giving citizenship to this section of people was a national duty," he remarked in reference to CAA which has of course been opposed vehemently by opposition parties, including All India Trinamool Congress.

He lashed out at the Trinamool Congress regime in the state for pursuing politics of 'untouchability' and said one Trinamool Congress leader was given a show cause notice just for sharing stage with him (Ghosh). "This is the democracy, they are pursuing....it is untouchability," he said.