Assam NRC row: Police complaint against Mamata Banerjee for her 'bloodbath, civil war' remark

A police complaint has been filed against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her ‘civil war’ remark on the Assam NRC draft.

The complaint has been filed by a BJP Yuva Morcha leader at Naharkatiya Police Station in Assam’s Dibrugarh.

Banerjee, who is in Delhi, had yesterday said that the Assam NRC will spark blood bath. After the NRC draft was issued, which excluded 40 lakh people of Assam, Mamata had said, “The NRC might lead to a civil war. There will be bloodshed. Members of minorities and Dalit communities are being driven out of the country.”

After filing the complaint, a local BJP youth wing leader said that Banerjee need not worry about Assam. “Bengalis live more peacefully here than they do in West Bengal. What she is saying is unfounded. She is leveling baseless allegation against the Assam Chief Minister,” he said.

On Wednesday, Mamata, during her visit to Delhi would meet Sonia Gandhi in continuation of her efforts to build a Federal Front against Narendra Modi-led BJP government.

On Tuesday, Mamata had met NCP leader Sharad Pawar and her daughter Supriya Sule. Also present at the meeting were Ram Jethmalani, Yashvant Sinha and Shatrughan Sinha. Mamata said that she had invited them all to be present at the Brigade Rally which her party would put up on January 19, 2019 ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Meanwhile, amid row over Assam’s citizens’ list, the Modi government has told the Supreme Court that it is contemplating taking biometrics details of over 40 lakh people, whose names did not figure in the final NRC draft, to avoid their influx to other states on false identity.

A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and RF Nariman was told by Attorney General KK Venugopal, appearing for Centre, that some states, including West Bengal, have fears that people whose name has not found mention in the second and final draft NRC, will migrate to other states.

"To allay the fear of states, the government is contemplating to collect biometric data of over 40 lakh people, so that if declared foreigners escapes to another state under a false identity then they may be tracked by authorities concerned," Venugopal said.