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KOLKATA: Claiming she will defeat BJP fighting solo in West Bengal, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday in her first Lok Sabha rally in Krishnanagar constituency that she will not allow Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to be implemented in the state and added that BJP was lying to the Matua community, treating them as a vote bank ahead of Lok Sabha elections...
"If you apply for CAA, you will lose citizenship for five years," Banerjee warned, adding that CAA will lead to NRC and Matua people will be in trouble...
The promise of implementing CAA was a major electoral plank for BJP in the last Lok Sabha and assembly polls in West Bengal..
She accused INDIA bloc partners CPI(M) and Congress of "joining hands with BJP" in West Bengal and asserted that the Opposition alliance has "ceased to exist" in the state...
The Trinamool Congress supremo urged people not to cast their votes in favour of the Left-Congress-ISF alliance in West Bengal as "voting for them would mean voting for BJP"...
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