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The Trinamool Congress connected Saturday (December 20, 2025) alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's code astatine the Taherpur rally successful West Bengal showed his "lack of concern" for the Matuas, who person been facing uncertainties implicit deletion of names station work of the draught electoral rolls nether the Special Intesive Revision (SIR).
Its State wide caput Kunal Ghosh besides claimed that the Prime Minister did not utter a azygous connection astir the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking radical successful BJP-ruled States. "Modi's code lacked imaginativeness and responsibility. He did not code the concerns of the Matuas," helium told reporters.
For the Matuas, a Dalit Hindu exile assemblage that migrated from Bangladesh implicit decades pursuing spiritual persecution, the archetypal statewide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) since 2002 has created anxieties among voters implicit individuality and citizenship.
Statewide, 58,20,898 names person been excluded from the draught electoral rolls nether SIR, reducing West Bengal’s electorate from 7.66 crore to 7.08 crore.
Election Commission of India information besides amusement astir 1.36 crore entries flagged for logical discrepancies, and astir 30 lakh voters categorised arsenic unmapped, taking the fig of voters who whitethorn beryllium called for hearings to astir 1.66 crore.
Matua leaders crossed enactment lines claimed a large stock of these voters beryllium to the community.
Mr. Ghosh besides alleged that the PM "remained soundless connected the deportation of Indian citizens to Bangladesh by the constabulary unit of BJP-ruled States, who could instrumentality to their motherland India astatine the involution of the judiciary".
His allusion was to migrant Sunali Khatun, who returned to India connected December 6 aft being pushed into Bangladesh successful June.
Ms. Ghosh besides claimed, "Mr. Modi did not explicate wherefore the Centre blocked the funds for cardinal projects for the mediocre radical successful Bengal and weaved a mendacious communicative astir deficiency of improvement successful Bengal."
He asked wherefore the Centre has withheld thousands of crores of funds nether the 100-day agrarian employment scheme.
"Why has helium deprived the mediocre of gathering their ain houses successful agrarian areas? Why has the drinking h2o task been stalled by the Centre? The Mamata Banerjee authorities is mobilising its ain resources to tally these projects," helium claimed.
Mr. Ghosh claimed that a fewer BJP workers died successful a bid mishap connected the mode to the Teherpur rally and blamed the "crowd mismanagement astatine Modi's programme".
"We are bittersweet implicit the nonaccomplishment of lives of BJP workers. But had determination been due absorption connected the mode to the venue, it could person been avoided," helium claimed.
The railway authorities confirmed that 3 radical died and 3 others were injured aft being deed by a bid amid dense fog connected Saturday (December 20), portion travelling to be Mr. Modi's rally astatine Taherpur successful Nadia district.
TMC spokesperson Arup Chakraborty said, "Modi ji came to cognize astir posters with slogans similar 'Narendra Modi spell back'. The Matuas are furious with the PM and his party."
PM Modi lashed retired astatine the Trinamool Congress successful West Bengal, calling the State's prevailing concern "maha jungle raj" and alleging that "corruption, nepotism and appeasement of the ruling dispensation person prevented the ushering of improvement to its people.
Addressing a monolithic gathering astatine Taherpur successful Nadia implicit the telephone from Kolkata, PM Modi urged the radical to supply a accidental to the BJP successful the 2026 Assembly polls to signifier a “double-engine government” successful the State.
CPI(M) cardinal committee subordinate Sujan Chakraborty claimed Modi realised that members of the Matua assemblage are "upset with some the BJP and the TMC for utilizing them arsenic a ballot slope portion cheating them connected the citizenship issue".
