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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to sojourn West Bengal's Nadia territory connected Saturday (December 20, 2025), wherever helium volition inaugurate nationalist road projects and code a nationalist rally, amid heightened governmental tensions implicit the ongoing SIR workout successful the State.
This would beryllium PM Modi’s archetypal sojourn to the State since the draft SIR rolls were published, and the 3rd successful the past 5 months.
The Prime Minister, governmental observers said, is scheduled to code the growing unease amongst the Matua assemblage members station the work of the draught rolls from his strategically located BJP rally venue successful Taherpur country of Ranaghat, not acold from the heartland of the Namasudra Hindu assemblage successful adjacent Bongaon.
In the process, PM Modi is apt to dependable the BJP’s bugle for the Assembly polls, which are owed successful the State aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth and finalise the roadmap for the party’s large propulsion for the important elections.
“The radical of West Bengal are benefiting from galore pro-people initiatives of the Central Government. At the aforesaid time, they are suffering owed to the TMC’s misgovernance successful each sector,” the PM posted connected X connected Friday (December 20, 2025) evening portion announcing his visit.
“The loot and intimidation of the TMC person crossed each limits. That is why, BJP is the people’s hope,” helium added.
The PM’s sojourn comes astatine a clip erstwhile the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has mounted sustained absorption to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that the workout is being carried retired successful “haste” and that a ample fig of genuine voters, peculiarly exile Hindus, hazard disenfranchisement connected its account.
In the draught electoral rolls published aft the enumeration phase, 58,20,899 names person been excluded, reducing the electorate to 7.08 crore.
Around 1.36 crore entries person besides been flagged for "logical discrepancies", portion 30 lakh voters person been categorised arsenic unmapped – a important percent of whom are apt to beryllium called for verification hearings implicit the adjacent 45 days.
For Matuas, a Dalit Hindu assemblage that migrated from Bangladesh implicit decades owed to spiritual persecution, this workout has revived anxieties implicit individuality and documentation.
Political observers wide judge that the assemblage members clasp sway successful arsenic galore arsenic 80 of the 294 assembly seats successful the State.
Speculations are rife that important numbers of Matuas person already been excluded from draught rolls. Many much are apt to travel suit successful the last rolls connected relationship of the unavailability of the EC-specified indicative documents they request to nutrient successful the eventuality of receiving proceeding notices during the verification phase.
Over the past years, canvass results person indicated that the BJP gained important inroads wrong the community, promising them ceremonial Indian citizenship.
BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar, who represents the Ranaghat Lok Sabha seat, wherever Taherpur is located, claimed that fearfulness was being dispersed deliberately among the Matuas astir SIR.
"We are hopeful that the PM's connection would dispel those fears and canards," helium said.
Chief Minister Banerjee has already led anti-SIR rallies successful Nadia and North 24 Parganas, the 2 adjoining districts that stock a borderline with Bangladesh and person a important Matua presence.
During his visit, the PM volition inaugurate and laic the instauration chromatic for 2 nationalist road projects worthy astir ₹3,200 crore.
He volition inaugurate the 66.7-km-long four-laning of the Barajaguli-Krishnanagar conception of NH-34 successful Nadia territory and laic the instauration chromatic for the four-laning of the 17.6-km-long Barasat–Barajaguli conception successful North 24 Parganas district.
The projects are expected to service arsenic a captious connecting nexus betwixt Kolkata and Siliguri, boosting trade, tourism and economical enactment crossed confederate and bluish parts of the State, officials said.
