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Jul
"If Bangladeshis come knocking on our door, we will provide them shelter," West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday during the party's annual 'Shahis Dibas' gathering at Kolkata's Esplanade. CM Mamata Banerjee cited the United Nations Resolution on refugees to validate her statement. Bangladesh is currently witnessing a tragic student protest, resulting in over 100 deaths. Bangladeshi students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have been demanding an end to a quota that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. The statement…