Kolkata, March 18 -- In an apparent indication that the Citizenship Amendment Act had hit Mamata Banerjee hard in Bengal's electoral battleground the Trinamool Congress on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for playing a "divisive" politics by introducing a "useless and purely discriminatory law aimed at dividing people to win votes."
Senior Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim who took up the cudgel in the absence of an ailing Chief Minister, told in an election meeting at Malda how "the Prime Minister is dividing the people by bringing discriminatory, religion-based laws like the CAA and doing politics on Ram temple . all to befool the voters and take attention from the real issues like unemployment and price rise....