Siliguri, January 3: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday made a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) president called PM Modi the ambassador of Pakistan and said that he only talks about the neighbouring country all day instead of India. She also hit out at the government for the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC). Mamata Banerjee Addresses Rally Against CAA in Purulia, Appeals to People to 'Come Together And Isolate BJP'.

"Why do you glorify Pakistan on every issue? You should rather speak of Hindustan. We don't want to be Pakistan. We love Hindustan. PM Modi talks of Pakistan all day as if he is the ambassador of Pakistan," the Chief Minister during a rally in Siliguri. Mamata Banerjee Raises Slogans Against BJP, CAA & NRC at a Rally Held Today in Kolkata, Watch Video.

Targeting Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government over CAA, Banerjee said, "It’s a shame that even after 70 years of Independence, we have to prove our citizenship. They (referring to BJP) only know how to divide the nation on the basis of religion. But my religion is to defend the freedom of people. This is our second freedom struggle, always remember this, to save the country from religious bigotry."

The Prime Minister had attacked the Congress Party and those opposing CAA and questioned them why they are not exposing Pakistan. “Pakistan was formed on the basis of religion, religious minorities were being persecuted there. The persecuted were forced to come to India as refugees. But Congress and its allies don’t speak against Pakistan, instead, they are taking out rallies against these refugees,” he said in Karnataka’s Tumakuru on Thursday.

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