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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) said Matua brothers and sisters person been “pushed into an unstable and confusing situation” owed to a conspiracy hatched by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities astatine the Centre.
The Chief Minister made the remarks successful a societal media station connected the decease day of Matua matriarch Binapani Devi, popularly known arsenic ‘Baroma’. The Trinamool Congress chairperson alleged that governmental games are being played successful the sanction of giving citizenship to them and questions are being raised astir their identity.
“They are being deliberately excluded from the elector database by SIR (special intensive revision). Those who are citizens of this state done generations, whose votes [on which] the authorities is elected, are being made to look uncertainty contiguous successful the sanction of giving them caller ‘citizenship’,” Ms. Banerjee said.
The remarks by the Chief Minister travel up of Assembly polls successful the State. Matuas, a assemblage of Hindu refugees from Bangladesh who person been migrating to West Bengal, comprise a salient elector radical successful the State. The assemblage has traditionally voted for the BJP implicit the past fewer elections.
Ms. Banerjee said her authorities would proceed to reason immoderate determination that undermines the rights of the Matua community. “We volition not judge this injustice. Our combat volition proceed against the attempts being made to instrumentality distant the rights of the radical of Bengal, including my Matua brothers and sisters. We volition not fto immoderate harm travel to the radical of Bengal. This is my pledge connected this peculiar day,” the Chief Minister said.
Her societal media station came a time earlier she is readying to beryllium connected a dharna against the SIR exercise.
In the societal media post, Ms. Banerjee said her authorities had taken respective initiatives for the payment of the community, including mounting up the Matua Development Board and establishing the Harichand-Guruchand University astatine Thakurnagar successful North 24 Parganas district.
During the SIR implementation successful the State, the representatives of the assemblage had expressed apprehension that their names were being struck disconnected from the electoral rolls. Thousands of radical belonging to the Matua community, comprising Hindu Namasudras with roots successful Bangladesh, person applied for oregon are being encouraged by the BJP to use for citizenship nether the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
The Union Home Ministry connected March 2, 2026 notified 2 much empowered committees to fast-track citizenship applications nether the CAA.
