Kolkata, December 28: A day after stating that the amended Citizenship Act will not be implemented in West Bengal as long as she is alive, and that there will be no detention centre in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday night penned down a strong-worded poem against the CAA and National Register of Citizens. She also lambasted Narendra Modi-led government and stated that her state government will oppose the divisive agenda as it is in favour of "United India".
The poem titled -- "Adhikar" in Bengali and "Our Right" in English -- was shared by the West Bengal CM on her Facebook page and is directed towards slamming the recent decisions of Central government. In her poem, Benerjee has not only criticised the polices of Central government, but had also asked who has given "you" the right to "trample" upon "my rights". Stating that the country never taught the people to hate against each other and discrimination, Banerjee had called NRC and the new citizenship law as "instruments of hate". Mamata Banerjee Says 'CAA Will Not Be Implemented in West Bengal as Long as I Am Alive'.
Here's Mamata Banerjee's Facebook post:
Here's what she wrote:
The country has become strangeNot my lord of birth!
India - where I was born
Never taught us discrimination.
Who has given you the right
To trample upon my rights?
Shame on you and your might
My country, my homeland
Has given me the right to stay
Those who spread hate
Your turn to weep, my friend.
You are full of poisonous hatred
Snatching away people's right
I know my country well,
Our harmony - a beholden sight
No to hate, Yes to right
This is our clarion call
We are all citizens
Human rights are for all.
Instruments of hate - NRC, CAA
We will not stand in queues
Poor people to que up again?
They are not be fooled.
No, no, no to hate
We oppose dividing people
United India is all we want
Divisions will turn to be futile.
We are all citizens
We reject divisive CAA,NRC
It is to be known that the Trinamool Congress supremo had repeatedly said raised her voice against the NRC and CAA. She had made her stance clear that her government would not let the NRC or CAA to be imposed in the state. She had also lent her support to students' protesting against the CAA and criticised government's action on them.
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