KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday vowed to complete the remaining work of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) implementation soon and the eviction of all the infiltrators from the country. He made the assertions while addressing the celebration of 125th birth anniversary of Jana Sangh founder and BJP icon Syama Prasad Mookerjee in the city.
Mr Shah, who landed here in the afternoon, also laid the foundation stone of a 125 ft-tall statue of Mookerjee at Eco Park in New Town and paid tribute to him by visiting his residence in Bhowanipore. While traveling from one venue to another during the whirlwind tour, he met Tollywood actor Prosenjit Chatterjee at his residence, Utsab, in Ballygunge.
Eulogising Mookerjee’s vision, the union home minister told an event at Milan Mela in the evening, “He had resigned from the union cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru in protest of no concerns for the Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Today the government of his party accomplished the task of introducing the CAA to give citizenship to all the Hindu migrants.”
He said, “Now I’m sharing something with you on this occasion from this platform since Suvenduda raises it to me daily. We will soon complete the remaining work of providing citizenship as BJP is in power here. I reiterate that we will evict each and every infiltrator from this country and make India safe. A drive to identify the infiltrators and their despatch has begun here.”
Mr Shah then lauded West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, present at the event, for his initiative to roll out Assembly Election manifesto promises after BJP formed its first government in the state. “Within a short time, the BJP government led by Mr Adhikari has implemented the Annapurna scheme, Ujjwala 3.0, free bus travel for women, and the Lakhpati Didi Mission,” he said.
Mr Shah pointed out, “In North Bengal, construction for a cancer hospital has started while land transfer to BSF for fencing has been completed. A committee has been set up to probe corruption cases. Be ready for the report presentation on this issue because every penny of the poor got lost in it. A panel has been formed for Uniform Civil Code. Equal law will be in force all.”
He further pinned hope on Mr Adhikari to materialise all the BJP pledges in the next five years. Meanwhile the CM announced that Mookerjee’s contribution to nation building would find a place in school books.
“I have discussed this with the school education minister and the departmental secretary. I will propose it to the new syllabus committee also,” he said during his visit to Mitra Institution, where Mookerjee studied, in the morning.
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