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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengali Dalits feel the NRC is targeting their community. Will this hurt the BJP in West Bengal? -Shoaib Daniyal

Bengali Dalits feel the NRC is targeting their community. Will this hurt the BJP in West Bengal? -Shoaib Daniyal

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published Published on Aug 6, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 6, 2018
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Of late, the BJP had done well to attract Dalit Bengali refugees with its promise of citizenship for Hindu Bangladeshis. But the NRC might harm that narrative.

On Wednesday, the All India Matua Mahasangha held protests in West Bengal against the exercise to update the National Register of Citizens in Assam to identify undocumented migrants from Bangladesh. Its supporters organised rail blockades at various points in the North 24 Parganas district, where the Matua Mahasangha’s headquarters is located.

The Matua Mahasangha is a religious organisation consisting principally of Namashudra Dalits with origins in Bangladesh. A large part of the BJP’s recent success in West Bengal is due to Namashudra support. The protests are therefore bad news for the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal.

The Assam government published the final draft of the National Register of Citizens on Monday. Around 40 lakh people did not find mention in the list out of 3.29 crore applicants. The Matua Mahasangha says that the final draft has excluded a large number of people from the Matua community.

As a perception takes root that Namashudra Bengalis in Assam are being left out of the National Register of Citizens, community leaders are speaking out against the BJP, which is the party in power in the Centre as well as Assam and has taken political ownership of the exercise.

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Scroll.in, 3 August, 2018, https://scroll.in/article/888923/bengali-dalits-feel-the-nrc-is-targeting-their-community-will-this-hurt-the-bjp-in-west-bengal


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