Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday assured the community that its members would get citizenship under the CAA and accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of spreading canards about it. Shah was addressing a rally at Matua community stronghold Bangaon, where he said, Mamata Banerjee can never stop Citizenship Amendment Act implementation in Bengal as it is a law by the central government.

Shah said no power in the world can stop refugee brothers from becoming citizens of India. He said this is the promise of the Modi government. He further added that Mamata Banerjee must remember that citizenship falls under the exclusive authority of the central government, not the state governments.

The Union Home Minister accused Mamata Banerjee of lying and spreading falsehood about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). He said Mamata Banerjee is lying that anyone who applies for citizenship under the CAA will face problems. He said he wanted to assure the people of the Matua community that no one will face any trouble. He promised them that they will get citizenship and will be able to live with respect in the country.

Shah was addressing a considerable Matua population in the Bongaon Lok Sabha seat where he attacked Mamata Banerjee for opposing the CAA and taking out rallies in support of infiltrators to appease her vote bank. Why is she against refugees obtaining citizenship?

Shah said the West Bengal chief minister is supporting infiltration in Bengal but opposes Hindu refugees getting citizenship. He said she is taking out rallies against the CAA and supporting infiltrators. Shah further asserted that Modi Ji has attained a majority with 270 seats, after the completion of voting in 380 seats of the first 4 phases and predicted that they will soon reach the target of 400 plus seats.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed hi nomination from Varanasi on Tuesday for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

In a now-viral video, Prime Minister Modi entering the district magistrate’s office with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at his side and giving the magistrate his documents. The officer extends a warm greeting to PM Modi, takes the paperwork with grace, and gives him a seat. PM Modi was also accompained by a priest into the officer’s chamber.

PM Modi’s nomination-filing event in Varanasi was attended by a number of BJP and ally leaders, including  Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. There were also Apna Dal (S) president Anupriya Patel, SBSP president Om Prakash Rajbhar, RLD chairman Jayant Chaudhary, and LJP leader Chirag Paswan.

In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi contested for the Lok Sabha from Varanasi for the first time. He is currently engaged in combat from the most significant Hindu spiritual hub for the third time.

This time, he is contesting against Athar Ali Lari of the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) and Ajai Rai of the Congress party. Modi won the seat by about 4.8 lakh votes in the 2019 election, a significant increase above his 3.72 lakh victory margin in 2014.

The BJP has won eight times from Varanasi since 1991, the only other time when the Congress won from that seat was RK Mishra in 2004. Varanasi will go under polls on June 1 in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha election.

The resultion for 2024 Lok Sabha election will be announced on June 4.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Modi’s four proposers for his nomination are Brahmin Pandit Ganeshwar Shastri, an OBC member; former RSS volunteer Baijnath Patel; OBC member Lalchand Kushwaha; and Dalit Sanjay Sonkar.

Earlier in the day, PM Modi offered prayers at the popular Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of the sacred Ganga river before to submitting his nomination. He went to the historic Kaal Bhairav temple as well.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday for trying to establish a dictatorial rule in the country and said fear of humiliation kept him away from the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya. The Congress president said he did not attend the pran-pratishtha ceremony at the Ram Mandir earlier this year due to fear of being humiliated as he is from the Dalit community.

Kharge was addressing a Lok Sabha election rally in Jharkhand at Netarhat, in Chatra parliamentary constituency. He also asked why wasn’t President Murmu, who is a tribal, invited for the opening of the Parliament building or the Pran Pratishtha at Ram Temple in Ayodhya? He asked why was wasn’t former President Ramnath Kovind, who is a Dalit, invited to the foundation-stone-laying ceremony of the Parliament building?

Kharge said he received an invitation for the Ram Mandir but gave it a miss, as he feared they would have kept doing shuddhi of the premises soon afterwards. He also claimed that he would not have been allowed to go near the idol.

The opposition leader slammed Modi for claiming that he had made a tribal woman or a Dalit man the president. He accused Modi for not inviting them to the Ram Temple Pran Pratishtha as he thought that he will become impure by doing so. Kharge appealed to the voters to rise above caste and community before it is too late.

Kharge said the ongoing elections are strategic for the country, its constitution, democracy and existence. He urged the voters not to allow a dictatorial regime and gave the example tribal chief minister Hemant Soren who has been imprisoned in false cases as he did not bow before BJP.

Hemat Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren said when the BJP denied (the voters) houses and pension, the Hemant led state government launched a housing scheme to provide houses to the poor and the universal pension scheme. She said this was the reason why the BJP tried to dislodge him in fake cases