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The fight over the Matua vote bank in West Bengal overshadows the sect's anti-caste roots


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April 23, 2021 16:26 IST
The Matuas became a significant political entity after the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, came into being
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The Baruni fair procession in Thakurnagar, the holy site of Matuas in North 24 Parganas.   | Photo Credit:
Debasish Bhaduri
The Matuas became a significant political entity after the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, came into being
On a sultry April day, Thakurnagar, the holy site of Matuas in the Bongaon sub-division of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district bordering Bangladesh, sizzles with banners of rival political parties asking for votes. As if indifferent to the ongoing political tension and the pandemic threat, a boisterous religious rally makes its way through the town, with men jumping as high as they can and women rolling on the roads. The sound of drums gets deafening. Every participant seems to be in ecstasy. ....

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PM Narendra Modi says Mamata Banerjee 'doing politics with the dead', she alleges phone tap | West Bengal Election News


PM Narendra Modi says Mamata Banerjee ‘doing politics with the dead’, she alleges phone tap
PM Modi and Mamata Banerjee
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday accused Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee of “doing politics with the dead”, terming it “an old habit” of hers. Mamata responded by charging Modi with “intercepting” her phone calls and said he would be within the ambit of a CID probe she had ordered. “Don’t you have any shame that you intercept a CM’s phone? You should resign as PM,” she said.
Their war of words came a day after BJP released an audio tape of a purported conversation between Mamata and Trinamool’s Sitalkuchi candidate Partha Pratim Ray in the aftermath of the April 10 CISF firing that killed four people. ....

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West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Matuas grappling with identity politics


Scheduled Caste religious group with origins in Bangladesh is grappling with identity politics
On April 14, B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda held a road show in Bongaon town. The BJP, for which religious and sub-religious identities have emerged as the most crucial tool of the 2021 campaign in the West Bengal Assembly polls, the date and the place were well chosen.
Since the past two years, Bongaon, a sub-division in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district bordering Bangladesh, is witnessing a new identity politics around the Matua sect, a Scheduled Caste religious group with origins in Bangladesh. ....

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