CAA In West Bengal: To Be Or Not To Be freepressjournal.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from freepressjournal.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Trinamul Congress' national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee's visit to Thakurnagar was marred after the TMC's second-in-command was prevented from offering puja in the main temple of the Matua community at Thakurnagar in North 24- Parganas today.
The BJP MP informed the Prime Minister that the incidents of attack have started on August 7 onwards in Shiyali village of Bangladeshs Khulna district, where shops and houses owned by “Matua (Hindu) Minority community in Bangladesh” were “demolished”.
Matua community attacked in Bangladesh : BJP MP Shantanu Thakur writes to PM Modi, urges him to intervene freepressjournal.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from freepressjournal.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Poll verdict in Matua bastions crucial for BJP before CAA implementation
SECTIONS
Last Updated: Apr 21, 2021, 12:07 PM IST
Share
Synopsis
Matuas, who make for a large chunk of the state s Scheduled Caste population, had been migrating to West Bengal since the 1950s, primarily due to religious persecution in erstwhile East Pakistan and then Bangladesh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Shantanu Ji and other members of the Matua community, in Orakandi
With citizenship for refugees having emerged as one of the poll planks of the BJP in its battle for Bengal, Matua bastions and the verdict they present this election will prove to be a test case for the party that had been weighing the pros and cons before implementing a new law enacted for the purpose.