Kolkata: BJP president Amit Shah asked West Bengal's party workers on Tuesday to begin raising awareness about the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to dampen the Trinamool Congress campaign that the NRC's saffron stand creates panic in the state. Leaders of the Trinamool Congress have alleged that the BJP is creating panic over NRC and the situation in West Bengal is such that 17 people have died because of the fear that the exercise will be carried out in the state. In Assam, over 19 lakh people have been excluded in the NRC exercise.
"The president of the party has asked us to reach every corner of the state where refugees are, to tell them about the facts of the proposal. We were told to restore confidence among the people that not a single refugee from Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jain should leave the country as they would be given citizenship.They don't need to worry about NRC," a senior state BJP leader said after the meeting.
