Will continue to protest until CAA is rolled back: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata/IBNS: In a fiercest attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after a long time since the 2019 General Elections, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee held a mega rally protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and National Register of Citizens (NRC) here on Monday and said she will continue to agitate until the citizenship law is rolled back.
Ending the rally, which began at Dr. BR Ambedkar's statue close to central Kolkata, at Jorasanko, which is the former home of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, Mamata said, "The CAA and NRC are the two sides of a lollipop. We will continue to protest until CAA is not rolled back."
However, the Trinamool supremo refused to accept as the CAA as a law terming it as "unconstitutional".
Mamata added, "I was the first person in the country to protest against NRC. Now all are protesting. Nitish Kumar is also protesting against NRC. But I urge him to protest against CAA also."
"There will be no CAA and NRC in West Bengal. I will die but won't allow it," the Chief Minister said in her trademark style.
Over the last three days, West Bengal has witnessed violent protests with the agitators setting buses, trains on fire, ransacking train stations.
Mamata will hold two more protest rallies on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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