India News: NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress’ newly elected Rajya Sabha member Mamata Bala Thakur, who represents the Matua Sangha (community) in West Bengal, has al.
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Binapani Devi Thakur, Matua community matriarch who was popularly known as ‘Boro Ma’ (elder mother), died on Tuesday after a prolonged illness. She was 100. Matuas are a religious refugee community from Bangladesh. Binapani suffered a multi-organ failure and breathed her last at 8.52 pm at the SSKM hospital in Kolkata. She had been shifted to the hospital on Sunday due to an acute lung infection and high fever.
Mamata to Matuas: You already are Indian citizens… outsider BJP trying to divide us
At another rally in Gopalnagar in Bongaon, the TMC chief once again vehemently opposed the implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in West Bengal. December 10, 2020 11:38:28 am
In its report card, the TMC emphasised that the Mamata Banerjee-led government worked towards social welfare of all communities (Express photo)
Days after the BJP, in a bid to appease Matua voters in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly polls, said that the Central government would begin implementing the new citizenship law (CAA) by February, Trinamool Congress supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday exhorted that the Matua community had already been identified as Indian citizens and there was no question of giving them “new citizenship”.