Union Home Minster Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Narendra Modi government will implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and no one can stop it. He was addressing a rally in Kolkata to launch the BJP’s Lok Sabha campaign. Shah said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been unable to stop infiltration in West Bengal.

Shah said voter and Aadhar cards are being openly and illegally distributed to infiltrators in the state. He asked if development ever going to take place in Bengal? He said this is the reason Mamata Banerjee is opposing CAA. Shah said CAA is the law of the country and no one can stop it.

CAA was passed by the Indian parliament in 2020. CAA offers citizenship to religious minorities who entered India through Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan before 2015. According to the Trinamool Congress the CAA is unconstitutional as it excludes Muslims and links citizenship to faith in a secular country.

The Centre had said the process for making news laws for CAA is going to start soon. Union Minister of state for home affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra had said the rules for CAA will be framed by March 30, 2024. Shah in his address at the esplanade said Banerjee government and the communists have ruined the state of Bengal. He said figures suggested election violence is the highest in Bengal all over India.

The home minister was confident the Bharatiya Janta Party will form government in Bengal with two thirds majority in the state elections in 2026. Shah urged the people of Bengal to ensure BJP wins with flying colours in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He requested the people to make PM Modiji the prime minister again. The BJP had won 18 seats which is the highest ever of the state’s 42 seats in the last state elections in 2019.  

With the campaign ending for the assembly elections to Telangana, the curtains came down on the elections to the five states of Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana. The campaign touched feverish highs and some despicable lows.  

Telangana is the last state where elections will be held on November 30, Thursday, the counting for all five states will be on December 3, Sunday. The Telangana Assembly has 119 seats, Rajasthan 199 seats, Madhya Pradesh has 230, Chhattisgarh has 90 seats and Mizoram has 40.

On the last leg of his campaign for Telangana, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi interacted with auto drivers, gig workers and sanitary workers at Mahmood Paradise function hall in Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency of Hyderabad on Tuesday. Gandhi also took an auto ride in a now viral video. The Congress leader has been honing his chops in interacting with workers of all kinds over the last few elections. Gandhi also slipped into an autodriver’s uniform before a selfie storm with them.

The Congress has been staging a hard campaign for the state ever since the Bharat Jodo Yatra when the party won popular grassroots support. Rahul Gandhi told gig workers today that if the Congress came to power in Telangana, it will bring in legislation for the welfare of Gig workers on the lines of a recent law passed in Rajasthan.

Gandhi was accompanied by state Congress working president and former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin, who is the party candidate from Jubilee Hills. Azharuddin had been a Lok Sabha MP earlier.

With the ruling Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS) seeking re-election for the second time, the party has been the recipient of barbs from both the Congress and the BJP. On Tuesday, Union Minister Piyush Goyal addressed a rally where he said the BJP will win the elections and install a chief minister from the OBCs. Goyal said once the BJP comes to power in the state, corruption, appeasement, politics and nepotism will end in the state. Yesterday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra equated both the BRS and the BJP and said both have harmed the state.

In Karimnagar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah the BRS and the Congress have a secret understanding. He claimed any vote for the Congress will go to the BRS. Shah appealed to the people of Telangana to vote BJP in the assembly elections.

Shah also noted that there was a groundswell of anger against the BRS in the state and the people didn’t want K Chandrashekhar Rao back as CM.  

As the state of Telangana gets ready for state elections, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said he was confident the BJP will win the elections and a leader from the backward community of BJP will become chief minister of the state. Goyal said once the BJP comes to power in the state corruption, appeasement, politics and nepotism will be ended in the state.

Goyal said BJP will win in Telangana and after winning the double engine government will leave no stone unturned in making the state developed. Assembly elections are going to take place in a single phase on November 30. Goyal said with the kind of response he had seen in Warangal and with the blessings of PM Modi, a backward community Chief Minister from BJP will take oath in Telangana.

Meanwhile Union Home Minister Amit Shah was addressing a public rally in Karimnagar. He said the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Congress party have a secret understanding. He said any vote for the Congress will go to BRS.

He appealed to the people of Telangana to vote for the BJP in the assembly elections. Shah asked the people give a huge majority to our candidate Etala Rajender so that the BJP can send a clear message to K Chandrasekhar Rao. Shah said the BRS should not get candidates in the next elections.

Amit Shah while addressing a public meeting said there is an atmosphere of anger against the ruling BRS in Telangana. He said the people did not want KCR to come back to power in the state. Shah attacked the Congress party and BRS over dynasty politics and said if the BJP comes to power in the state, then the chief minister will be made from a backward class. He said if the BRS or the BLP are voted to power, then the chief minister will be made from one particular family.