New Delhi: While addressing a rally organised by West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress against the rollout of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters’ list, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee associated the process with that of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

In her speech, it was principally this allegation, that SIR would disenfranchise specifically two crore voters of the state and that many would be put in detention camps, which raised several eyebrows of surprise.

The reference was made keeping in mind a large chunk of voters of the Matua community who are wary of SIR plucking them out of a safe abode where they took refuge after fleeing religious persecution in East Pakistan, which continued even in Bangladesh.

The Matuas are Namashudras, who co

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