Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kolkata on Saturday, as the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests rage in West Bengal. Modi met State Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been staging wide protests against the CAA.

After the meeting, Banerjee said she told the PM to withdraw Citizenship Amendment Act, proposed NRC and the NPR. She added that she met the PM regarding some financial demands for the state.

“I told PM Modi that we oppose CAA, NRC and NPR,” said Banerjee.
Banerjee, while talking to protesting students in West Bengal, said, “Yesterday, I saw CAA notification, I tore it. I have even told Prime Minister that if he wants to do NRC & CAA, he will have to do it over my dead body.”

Left students protested against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s meeting with PM Modi at the Raj Bhavan earlier today. Shouting ‘Azadi’ and ‘shame shame’ slogans, the activists broke three barricades put up near the stage of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad’s sit-in near Raj Bhavan.

Students of Jadavpur University protested in Kolkata against the January 5 violence on JNU campus in Delhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to West Bengal.

This is PM Modi’s first visit to West Bengal after BJP’s impressive show in the last Lok Sabha election by winning 18 seats, out of 42, in Bengal.

Paying tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary at the Belur Math, Modi stayed for night at the headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission, and is expected to meditate at the temple of Swami Vivekananda on Sunday.

A day before his visit, Modi tweeted, “I am excited to be in West Bengal today and tomorrow. I am delighted to be spending time at the Ramakrishna Mission and that too when we mark Swami Vivekananda’s Jayanti. There is something special about that place.”