{"id":319321,"date":"2020-01-27T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T11:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319321"},"modified":"2020-01-27T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T11:53:21","slug":"west-bengal-assembly-passes-resolution-against-citizenship-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-assembly-passes-resolution-against-citizenship-act\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Assembly passes resolution against Citizenship Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee.jpg 715w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/>West Bengal became the fourth state on Monday to pass a resolution against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The time has come to put aside narrow differences and fight together to save the country,&#8221; Mamata said during her address in Assembly on anti-CAA resolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn Bengal, we won\u2019t allow CAA, NPR, and NRC. We will fight peacefully,\u201d said TMC supremo , adding to it, she further said, \u201cThe new citizenship law is anti-people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The resolution was supported by Left parties and the Congress members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala, Punjab and Rajasthan are the other states that have passed a resolution against the Citizenship Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal became the fourth state on Monday to pass a resolution against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the Assembly. &#8220;The time has come to put aside narrow differences and fight together to save the country,&#8221; Mamata said during her address in Assembly on anti-CAA resolution. \u201cIn Bengal, we won\u2019t allow CAA, NPR, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[12262,12471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319330,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319321\/revisions\/319330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}