Deleted names, shaken loyalties: Final SIR rolls unsettles BJP’s hold over Matuas

KOLKATA: (Apr 10) For years, the BJP’s equation with Bengal’s Matua refugees was built on a single promise — back the party, and the long uncertainty over their citizenship will be resolved.

But the final electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have turned that promise into the saffron party’s biggest vulnerability.

Deletion of lakhs of names from the Matua community in Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts has set off the first signs of political drift in the refugee Hindu belt that has been at the heart of the BJP’s expansion in Bengal since 2019.

Source: PTI News

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