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West #Bengal Assembly rules out #NRC 👏👏
Only a handful of BJP members opposed the resolution.
It was pointed out that Gorkhas had voted overwhelmingly for the BJP in Darejeeling hills, and one lakh Gorkha people have been excluded from the NRC. thehindu.com/news/national/…

During the debate, members, supporting the resolution that had called the exercise “inhuman and autocratic”, made repeated references to the partition of Bengal and the influx of refugees from Bangladesh. They said the exercise was “anti-Bengali” #TMC #NRC

Leader of the Left Legislature Party Sujan Chakraborty said the #NRC was not against Muslims or those who had come from the other side of Bengal but against the poor people who had no access to documents. #CPM

All India Forward Bloc MLA Ali Imran Ramz described the resolution as historic. He said it had proved that “#Bengal is secular and will remain secular”. #NRC #ForwardBloc