Mamata Banerjee criticised the government over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the centre over its policies on trade and citizenship, saying the government would "sell off" everything and what would remain are detention camps.
"BJP will lose Delhi elections. They are losing states but they are shameless. They will sell everything and what will remain are the detention camps," Ms Banerjee said at a meeting of the Trinamool in Krishnanagar.
"They are privatizing Air India, LIC and are even thinking of privatizing Indian Railways. Our money is not secure today," she added.
The West Bengal Chief Minister said the BJP is creating violence in the state and people should keep an eye on their activities.
"For the last six years, BJP is in the (central) government but they have not given anything to Bengal. Several of my party workers have been murdered in Nadia. If the BJP thinks that just by creating violence it can win Bengal, the public must keep an eye on them," she said.
She hit out at Union Minister Anurag Thakur for his "goli maro" comments, allegedly made against protesters over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA.
"In Shaheen Bagh, women are sitting on protest and even in our state, they are protesting. Earlier, a central minister said that go and shoot them. After saying this how can he hold his position (in Union council of ministers)? It doesn't happen in a democracy that you go and shoot people," she said.
"Yesterday, in the Lok Sabha, the government said that NRC will not happen. They keep on changing their words. If NPR is the first step to NRC, then why will we agree to it?" she added.
Ms Banerjee has refused to implement National Population Register (NPR) in West Bengal, calling it the first step towards the contentious National Register of Citizens (NRC).