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(Express photo)Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged that people in Assam, who questioned the legitimacy of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), were “picked up and taken to detention camps”. “There are 1,200 people who have already been taken to detention camps. It has come to our knowledge that some of those taken to the camps are traders from Murshidabad who had gone to Assam to sell sarees,” Mamata said. The chief minister also alleged that of the 40 lakh people left out of NRC, 38 lakh are Bengali speakers. (Express photo) Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna on Tuesday..