Kolkata, Nov 15, 2025

Former Lok Sabha MP and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday forwarded a letter to Union Minister of Home Affairs, Amit Shah, urging for an ordinance for protecting the citizenship rights of people from the Matua community.

Matuas are a backward class community of people from the Hindu community coming to West Bengal as refugees from the neighbouring Bangladesh and settling in different districts in the state, with concentration mainly in North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts.

In his letter, former West Bengal Congress president Chowdhiry requested Shah’s intervention to exempt the Matuas from the strict documentary requirements under the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal, and to formally

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