-The Indian Express BJP is attempting to use citizenship issue to woo Namasudra community in Bengal. It is generally believed that unlike other states of India, caste and religion don’t play a significant role in West Bengal’s electoral politics. Academic literature often articulates this as West Bengal’s “exceptionalism”. As a result of the electoral decline of the Left Front and some limited attempts by the Trinamool Congress at community-based mobilisation, the...

-Scroll.in 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...