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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on his 2-day West Bengal visit asked CM Mamata Banerjee to come out in public on a white paper with total killings in the state and questioned why she had not submitted any crime details over the past 3 years.

Talking about the 'demands' of local BJP leaders and people of Bengal regarding the implementation of CAA, Shah said that the process will be laid out soon and the law is ready, all they are waiting for is the pandemic situation to stabilize.

The Minister also said that the Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented throughout the country at once and not in a statewide manner.

"The citizenship law will be implemented and refugees will get citizenship. It depends on the coronavirus pandemic. But it will be done. The law is in place," Amit Shah said today as he prepared to leave the state at the end of his two-day visit.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, for the first time, makes religion the test of Indian citizenship. The government says it will help non-Muslim refugees from three Muslim-dominated neighbouring countries if they fled to India because of religious persecution. Critics say the law discriminates against Muslims and violates secular tenets of the Constitution.