Not Just Muslims, SIR Purge Hits Matua Hindus too, TMC Bets on Anti-BJP Anger |West Bengal Elections

Описание: Lakhs of voters are disappearing from West Bengal’s rolls and many are from one crucial community: the Matuas.
Is this just a bureaucratic clean-up, or something that could reshape the election?

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The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has removed over 90 lakh names. Among them: a significant number of Matua voters, a community that has historically shaped outcomes in dozens of constituencies.

So what’s really happening here?

The Matuas, many of whom migrated from present-day Bangladesh, have long sat at the centre of Bengal’s political tug-of-war. The BJP has courted them with the promise of citizenship through the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The Trinamool Congress, meanwhile, questions why long-time voters now need to prove their citizenship at all.

Now, with names missing from voter lists, that debate is no longer theoretical.

Is this an administrative correction of flawed rolls?
Or does it risk excluding a community that has already lived through displacement and uncertainty?

From Thakurnagar - the Matua heartland - this report traces how identity, citizenship, and electoral power are colliding just days before voting.

Because this election may not just be about who wins.
It may be about who gets to vote at all.

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