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Mamata to meet party MPs, MLAs on December 20 on plan to counter NRC, CAB

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will meet all the party MLAs and MPs on December 20, to discuss the blueprint to counter the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizens Amendment Bill (CAB).

The meeting will be held at Trinamool Bhavan. The party has asked all the legislators and parliamentarians to be present at the meeting without fail.

In the meeting at Kharagpur on November 9, Banerjee had said that NRC and CAB were "two sides of the same coin" and assured the gathering that the two would not be implemented in Bengal as long as she was there.

After NRC was implemented in Assam, the Trinamool supremo had sent a delegation led by Firhad Hakim to meet those whose names had been dropped from the list. However, the state government in Assam did not allow the delegation to go out of the airport and they had come back to Kolkata.

In all the meetings which have been held recently, Banerjee has spoken against NRC and urged people coming from all walks of life to come out and protest against the "draconian step taken by BJP to divide society."

She alleged that out of the 19 lakh people whose names have been dropped from the NRC list in Assam, 12 lakh are Bengalis. The names of 1 lakh Gorkhas have also been dropped. She added that the condition of those who had been taken to the detention camp was deplorable.

Banerjee has claimed repeatedly that NRC and CAB are scare-tactics by the Centre to divert the attention of the people from the nation's economic woes.

It may be recalled that around 30 people in Bengal have died because of the fear that if asked, they would not be able to produce the documents which are required to be labeled as Indian citizens under the NRC.

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