{"id":73068,"date":"2025-09-04T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:01:03","slug":"centre-s-order-on-foreigners-act-farcical-election-gimmick-mamata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73068","title":{"rendered":"Centre\u2019s order on Foreigners\u2019 Act \u2018farcical\u2019, \u2018election gimmick\u2019: Mamata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre\u2019s order on Foreigners\u2019 Act \u2018farcical\u2019, \u2018election gimmick\u2019: Mamata<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 4-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Kolkata, Sep 4 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Centre over its recent order under the Foreigners Act, allowing members of minority communities from neighbouring countries to stay in India without valid documents, terming it a \u201cfarce\u201d and an \u201celection gimmick\u201d.<br \/>\nSpeaking in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly during a discussion on a government resolution condemning alleged atrocities on Bengali migrants, Banerjee claimed the Centre\u2019s move was aimed at misleading the public ahead of the upcoming elections and accused the BJP of using such tactics t<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=54624\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>enship, and constitutional rights to those who came till 2024? The BJP has to clarify this as the new order doesn&#39;t mention anything about these pertinent issues,\u201d Banerjee said.<br \/>\nThe BJP had made such &#8220;fake promises ahead of 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha polls&#8221;, but in reality, how many citizenships were granted, she questioned.<br \/>\nThe Centre\u2019s order, issued under the recently implemented Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025, allows members of minority communities\u2014Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians\u2014from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan who entered India on or before December 31, 2024, to stay in the country without valid travel documents, if they fled religious persecution.<br \/>\nAccording to the Citizenship (Amendment<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=54624\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre\u2019s order on Foreigners\u2019 Act \u2018farcical\u2019, \u2018election gimmick\u2019: MamataGSTDated:- 4-9-2025PTIKolkata, Sep 4 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Centre over its recent order under the Foreigners <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}