West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday (March 5, 2026) said Matua brothers and sisters have been “pushed into an unstable and confusing situation” due to a conspiracy hatched by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre.
The Chief Minister made the remarks in a social media post on the death anniversary of Matua matriarch Binapani Devi, popularly known as ‘Baroma’. The Trinamool Congress chairperson alleged that political games are being played in the name of giving citizenship to them and questions are being raised about their identity.
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“They are being deliberately excluded from the voter list by SIR (special intensive revision). Those who are citizens of this country through generations, whose votes [on which] the government is elected, are being made to face uncertainty today in the name of giving them new ‘citizenship’,” Ms. Banerjee said.
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