CAA a game changer in all Matua belts of Bengal in 2024 Lok Sabha pollsThe implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) ahead of the Lok Sabha election is a game changer for the Matua communities in We...
12 Mar, 2024, 11.05 AM IST
CAA will be implemented ahead of 2024 polls: Sukanta MajumdarThe Matua community, with its long-time demand for citizenship rights, have demanded implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) ...
05 Jul, 2022, 11.30 PM IST
Matua Mahasangh leader Shantanu Thakur writes to PM Modi seeking action to safeguard the Matua communityThe BJP MP informed the Prime Minister that the incidents of attack have started on August 7 onwards in Shiyali village of Bangladesh’s Khu...
11 Aug, 2021, 09.23 PM IST
Cabinet expansion: 27 OBCs, 12 SCs, 8 STs in PM’s final line-upEven among the OBCs, special attention was paid on giving representation to castes which are lesser in numbers but together they all become...
08 Jul, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
Cabinet Reshuffle: How are new ministers being selected? Here's a clueThe new set of India's Council of Ministers will be chosen keeping the existing paradigm in mind while accounting for political exigencies ...
07 Jul, 2021, 03.14 PM IST
CAA, PM Narendra Modi's Orakandi Thakurbari temple visit to sway Matua votersBJP has already tried to woo the community by promising to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act which guarantees citizenship to religiou...
26 Mar, 2021, 11.00 PM IST
Mamata faces do-or-die battle in high-stakes Bengal assembly electionsStakes are high for the tempestuous TMC boss as losing the elections might put a question mark on the very existence of her "ideology-starv...
10 Mar, 2021, 12.50 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee to fight only from Nandigram, TMC gives more tickets to SCsAddressing a press conference here, Banerjee said she will contest from Nandigram and not from the Bhowanipore constituency, from where she...
05 Mar, 2021, 11.28 PM IST
Identity politics gaining ground in West Bengal ahead of assembly pollsIn West Bengal, where the electoral discourse hitherto steered clear of divisive religious propaganda, the BJP and the ruling TMC are locke...
02 Mar, 2021, 02.59 PM IST
West Bengal: SC, ST issues take centre stage as BJP talks 'paribortan'During his visit next week, home minister Amit Shah is likely to reach out to Matua voters at the sect’s spiritual centre of Thakurnagar, a...
08 Feb, 2021, 10.12 AM IST
BJP aims to break Trinamool Congress to win West Bengal elections this year“We will definitely have more filters now. Even if they want to join us, they will be only welcomed as party workers," said a senior party ...
15 Jan, 2021, 11.22 PM IST
Centre plans PM-driven events; state to hold Didi-led paradesThe Centre has decided to celebrate Netaji’s 125th birth anniversary in a grand manner, and has set up a 85-member committee headed by the ...
11 Jan, 2021, 09.38 AM IST
Big role for small meetings in BJP's Bengal planThe BJP has firmed up its CAA campaign for West Bengal. It is focusing on holding workshops for cadre, parivar sammelans for Bengali famili...
04 Jan, 2020, 11.54 AM IST
Make sure Hindus don't get left out, particularly in West Bengal: RSS tells the government on CABThe Sangh is most concerned about the implementation of the bill in West Bengal, where it feels that if the identification of immigrants is...
10 Dec, 2019, 09.21 AM IST
Make Citizenship Bill people’s campaign, RSS tells cadreThe move comes shortly after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said ‘no Hindu will have to leave the country’ after names of a large number of people...
21 Nov, 2019, 08.12 AM IST
Bangladeshi infiltration debate back on West Bengal's political agendaThe Burdwan blast and the arrest of Bangladeshi nationals from across the state has brought the debate on infiltration from Bangladesh back...
19 Oct, 2014, 10.23 AM IST
Parties cross swords on Bangladesh immigrants for marginal gainsThose who entered India after March 25, 1971, cannot get citizenship rights and are not entitled to refugee status.
09 May, 2014, 01.18 PM IST