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Centre’s delay in rolling out the Citizenship Amendment Act has given the All India Matua Mahasangh, which is led by BJP MP Santanu Thakur, an opportunity to pile pressure on the BJP and ask Union home minister Amit Shah to field at least 30 Matua candidates in the districts of North 24-Parganas and Nadia in the Assembly polls.
Shah will be in Thakurnagar on Thursday.
“We will ask Amit Shah to field Matua candidates in Assembly segments where our community dominates the electorate. There are almost 80 Assembly seats that have a large Matua presence but in at least 30 of those seats in North 24-Parganas and Nadia, we constitute over 60 per cent of the electorate. In these 30 seats ,we will demand that the BJP nominate candidates from the Matua community,” said a senior leader of the Mahasangh.