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Leaders of the West Bengal portion of the Bharatiya Janata Party connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) urged ‘refugees of spiritual persecution’ from Bangladesh to use for Indian citizenship nether the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) arsenic soon arsenic possible, and claimed their names volition look connected the State’s voters’ list.
“We petition Bangladeshi Hindu refugees to enrol successful CAA camps. On behalf of the BJP and the Rashtravadi Vichar Parivar, respective camps are being organised, with computers, printers and laptops. Please sojourn these camps, interaction the BJP mandals. Every mandal has aggregate assistance camps going on. Please apply, the Indian authorities and the West Bengal BJP volition basal beside you,” Leader of Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari said connected Saturday.
He besides clarified that Bangladeshi Hindus who person entered West Bengal owed to spiritual persecution “are not infiltrators, they are refugees”.
“Till now, astir 14,000 radical person applied to the CAA. None of them person mislaid their jobs oregon stopped receiving immoderate payment benefits from the Centre oregon State. They haven’t faced immoderate trouble… It is the LoP’s warrant and petition that, use to CAA arsenic soon arsenic possible, your sanction volition beryllium connected the voters’ list,” Mr Adhikari added.
The CAA is simply a citizenship instrumentality that allows persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi oregon Christian communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh oregon Pakistan who entered into India connected oregon earlier 31.12.2014 to taxable applications for Indian citizenship nether a peculiar provision, according to the Home Ministry’s Indian Citizenship Online Portal.
Notably, the Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order, 2025, besides carried provisions for radical of the aforesaid communities who entered India owed to spiritual persecution earlier December 31, 2024.
The BJP is acceptable to organise much than 700 CAA camps crossed the State up of an impending Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the State’s electoral rolls and the Assembly polls successful 2026. In West Bengal, the Matua assemblage successful peculiar is expected to payment mostly from the CAA and is considered arsenic a beardown votebank for the BJP.
‘Do not fearfulness SIR’
Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar and Mr Adhikari held a associated rally astatine Gangarampur successful the Dakshin Dinajpur territory connected Saturday. During the rally, Mr Majumdar said the radical of West Bengal whose names oregon whose parents’ names are successful the 2002 voters’ database “need not fearfulness SIR” and urged Hindu foreigners to use for citizenship nether CAA provisions.
“If your sanction oregon your parents’ names bash not diagnostic successful the 2002 list, you beryllium to 1 of 2 categories… if you’re Hindu and from Bangladesh, we person made provisions for you to go an Indian national nether CAA,” Mr Majumdar said.
He added that the party’s combat for 2026 is of “aar-paar” (two sides of a border). This connection assumes value successful airy of the stark differentiation the saffron enactment has made betwixt ‘infiltrators’ and ‘refugees’ from neighbouring countries, successful the discourse of elector database revision and CAA camps respectively.
This improvement follows BJP State President Samik Bhattacharya’s societal media station connected Friday, wherever helium accused the West Bengal authorities of issuing delayed commencement registrations successful State-run hospitals of bordering districts. For reference, commencement certificates are considered a important papers successful proving one’s eligibility during the elector database revision.
