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”.
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What is the big idea of Modi 2.0 reshuffle ? To ramp up the image of the Govt or shelter defectors ? July 8, 2021, 9:51 AM IST
Lakshmi Iyer is a journalist worked with Mumbai Mirror, who has been covering politics for three decades in Delhi & Mumbai.
A lot of thought and deliberations had reportedly gone into making the Modi 2.0 Cabinet reshuffle; endless meetings happened between Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah , BJP President JP Nadda and all those who mattered in the RSS . Yet what we saw as a major overhaul of Modi Government’s on July 7 evening at Rashtrapati Bhavan did little to convince if the axing of senior ministers like Ravishankar Prasad and Prakash Javedkar among 12 ministers by itself was enough to signal that decision- making and delivery mechanism of the regime would improve overnight.
There has been a clear swing in Matua votes in Bongaon, the main seat of the Matua community, in favour of TMC mainly due to their disgruntlement over the delay in implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by the Centre.
Matua votes in Nadia, North 24 Parganas crucial in next phase
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The Matua population will have a major influence in the poll outcome in the Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts, where voting is scheduled for April 22.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi s visit to Orakandi in Bangladesh, home minister Amit Shah s address to the Matua community in Bongaon on the Citizenship law and the selection of a candidate from the influential Matua Thakurbari family are careful strategic moves by the BJP to sway Mamata Banerjee s hold over the Matua vote bank in Bengal.
The Matua population will have a major influence in the poll outcome in the Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts, where voting is scheduled for April 22.