NEW DELHI: Taking her fight against the Centre's over Assam's National Register for Citizens, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the move would impact the entire country and jeopardize its relations with neighbouring Bangladesh. , as their people are being referred to as "infiltrators."

"While there may be one percent or a miniscule number of people who are infiltrators from across the border, among the 40 lakh who have been deregistered, there are people who have crossed over generations back, compelled by historical reasons and they cannot be termed as infiltrators. It is an insult to Bangladesh and India... They are our neighbours... We have a bond with them... We speak the same language... We love them as neighbours... Bangladesh is not a terrorist state... I don't understand why the government (Centre) is doing this," Banerjee told reporters here.

The TMC chief said, "It is BJP which should be called "ghuspetiya" (infiltrator) as they are infiltrating into citizens' lives, telling them what to eat, what wear, what to do and also trying to control the media."

A TMC delegation of six MPs and two other party leaders will visit Assam to get a ground report on the state of those left out of the draft NCR.

"There are 833 people from her state who have been put in jails in Assam, of whom 28 are women and children ... Where will they go." she said, showing documents of people from Murshidabad- both Hindus and Muslims- who have failed to make it to the list.

She accused BJP of creating unrest and repeated that "it is BJP which was creating a civil war-like situation by the NRC move. We want peace and harmony".

Accusing the BJP of playing votebank politics with NRC, Banerjee said, "I met Rajnath Singhji... the home minister is saying there will be no harassment to people but BJP is saying they should be killed, thrown out ... A new dictionary of hate is being created by them."

