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Bengal polls: Despite wooing by both BJP and Trinamool, Matuas choose to split votes


Bengal polls: Despite wooing by both BJP and Trinamool, Matuas choose to split votes
Besides Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other senior leaders held a series of public meetings in Matua areas.
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Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP State President Dilip Ghosh seen eating lunch with a Matua family at their residence at Gouanganagar in Kolkata. (File Photo | PTI)
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KOLKATA: The Bharatiya Janata Party in its electoral mathematics for Bengal had counted on the 3 million strong Vaishnavite Matua community spread over the districts of Nadia, South and North 24 Parganas as a major vote bank, with the Prime Minister taking time not only to pay repeated visits to Matua dominated constituencies but even to a Matua shrine in neighbouring Bangladesh. ....

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BJP Wins Pro-CAA Matua Votes But CAA To Hit Mamata Hurdle


BJP Wins Pro-CAA Matua Votes But CAA To Hit Mamata Hurdle
Mamata Banerjee has been a staunch critic of the legislation and had vowed to prevent its implementation in the state.
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BJP Wins Pro-CAA Matua Votes But CAA To Hit Mamata Hurdle
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Amidst Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC)’s sweeping victory in the state elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had promised to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the first cabinet meeting should their government come to power, has won most of the seats where members from the Dalit, refugee communities of the Matua and Namasudras dominate the demography. ....

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Matuas, farmers issues, border districts in focus as 43 seats of Bengal to vote today


Matuas, farmers issues, border districts in focus as 43 seats of Bengal to vote today
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Nine seats in Uttar Dinajpur and Nadia will go to polls on April 22 along with 17 constituencies in North 24 Parganas and eight in Purba Bardhaman. Seats in Uttar Dinajpur like Chopra, Islampur, Goalpokhar and Chakulia that share a border with Bangladesh on one side and Bihar on another are strategically important for the BJP and TMC.
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Polling officials carry EVMs and other material for sixth phase in West Bengal.
The Matua factor centred around the promise of citizenship, closure of jute mills, rising unemployment and agrarian distress are some of the crucial factors likely to impact the sixth phase of polling in Bengal on Thursday that will see voters in 43 assembly constituencies in Uttar Dinajpur, Nadia, North 24 Parganas and Purba Bardhaman cast their vote. ....

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