Kolkata: West Bengal CM and TMC leader Mamata Banerjee said that she will not allow NRC to be implemented in the state. The CM said in the assembly that the implementation of NRC is nothing but a political agenda of the BJP-led central government. During the discussion on a resolution on NRC under Rule 185 in the Legislative Assembly, Mamata said, 'We will not allow BJP to implement NRC in Bengal".

Mamata said that in the way the democratic system is being destroyed in the whole country, all opposition parties will have to unite and agitate. Nationwide agitation against BJP will be the only option. The Chief Minister said this in a counter-speech against NRC in a debate on the joint resolution brought by the government with the support of Congress and the Left Front in the Assembly.

The motion was passed after debate. Mamata expressed grief over the problems faced by the people from the final list of NRC released in Assam on August 31. On Friday, the Bengal government passed a resolution against the NRC in the Assembly, which was supported by the opposition Congress and the Left Front, while the BJP strongly opposed it. In this proposal, NRC has been described as an inhuman and dictatorial step. State Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim, while favouring the state government over NRC in the state assembly, said that NRC is completely against humanity.

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