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Updated: Jan 18, 2020 01:43 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Jan 18 (ANI): Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday joined a protest against the Citizenship
Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) here at Park Circus Maidan in Kolkata.Opposition parties, including
Trinamool Congress led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, have been protesting against the CAA and NRC calling them
During his visit here, the Congress leader was surrounded by hundreds of protestors who were raising slogans against Centre's anti-people
Recently, during a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee demanded that both the CAA and NRC should be
withdrawn."While speaking to Prime Minister, I told him that we are against CAA, National Population Register (NPR) and NRC
We want that CAA and NRC should be withdrawn," Banerjee had informed media persons immediately after her January 11 meeting with the Prime
Minister at the Raj Bhavan.The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and
Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and who came to India on or before December 31, 2014
