‘Ready to shed blood for country, will not accept CAA, NRC, UCC’: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday (April 11) said she will not allow implementation of the CAA, NRC, and the Uniform Civil Code in the state.

Addressing a gathering in Kolkata on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, she claimed that some people will try to "engineer riots" during elections and urged those who participated in the programme "not to fall prey to the plot".

Eid-ul-Fitr marks the culmination of the fasting month of Ramzan.

"We will not accept the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, National Register of Citizens, and Uniform Civil Code. If we will live unitedly, nobody will be able to cause harm to us," Mamata said while addressing the gathering at the Red Road.

The chief minister told the gathering, “We are ready to shed blood for the country, but will not tolerate torture for the country. A uniform civil code is unacceptable. I want harmony in all religions.”

Mamata had earlier warned people that if they applied for citizenship under CAA, they would be designated as foreigners, and advised them not to apply.

‘TMC’s fight is against BJP’

She asserted that her party TMC's fight is against the BJP.

"We will decide about the INDIA bloc later. But in Bengal, please see that no vote goes to any other party," the TMC supremo said.

She also slammed the BJP government at the Centre for "using the central probe agencies against the opposition parties".

TMC national general secretary and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee accompanied her at the Eid meet.

(With inputs from agencies)