Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hit out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), accusing her of misleading people.

“We have passed the CAA law. Mamata didi is misleading the people of Bengal. She is saying that if you apply for CAA, you will lose your citizenship. I request refugees to apply for citizenship under CAA, I assure there won’t be any problem,” Shah said at a rally in West Bengal’s Balurghat.

“Mamata didi, no matter how much you oppose CAA, we will grant citizenship to all the refugees,” the minister said.

Continuing his attack on the Trinamool Congress chief, Shah said,”To build a ‘Sashakt Bharat’, we will have to build a ‘Sashakt Bengal’. But you see the extent of infiltration in West Bengal! If such situations persist, the state can not progress and can never become empowered.”