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Will Amit Shah s Bengal Visit Calm Matua Discontent Over CAA Delay and Help BJP in Polls?
File photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, refugees, particularly the ‘Matuas’ helped the Bharatiya Janata Party secure nine to 10 seats out of 18 constituencies the party won. But the community is now miffed over the delay in CAA s implementation.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Saturday hold a mega public meeting in Thakurnagar, an area dominated by people belonging to the Matua community, amid their discontent over delay in implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in West Bengal.
Supporters of India s main opposition Congress party shout slogans during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, a bill that seeks to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries, in Ahmedabad, India, on Dec. 11, 2019. The placard reads: Save Bharat (India) from divisive BJP. (Amit Dave/Reuters)
The BJP says it played no role in the case against Faruqui. The case was filed at an individual level. You can t say there is any political pressure or influence. Court will take a decision on the basis of arguments, Rajneesh Agrawal, BJP s state secretary in Madhya Pradesh, told Al Jazeera.
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The recently passed Micro Finance Institutions (MFI) Bill, 2020 by the Assam Assembly has the potential to increase asset quality challenges for micro lenders, according to a Crisil Ratings report. It said announcement of any loan waiver could affect the repayment discipline which could further worsen the situation for micro financiers. Assam s microfinance portfolio (including banks and non-banks) was estimated at Rs 12,400 crore as of September 2020 or around five per cent of such loans in the country. For the sector, it s dj vu a decade after the Andhra Pradesh (AP) ordinance of 2010, the rating agency said in the report. It said the legislation is the latest in a string of events affecting microfinance lenders in Assam: economic stress in the tea plantation industry in October 2019, agitation over Citizenship Amendment Bill that December, and the COVID-19 pandemic that hit the entire nation.
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Assam on January 23, the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) has decided to launch a state-wide protest on the CAA