Union Minister of State and West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar will get into his automobile. File | Photograph Credit score: PTI
Leaders of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration on Saturday (October 25, 2025) urged ‘refugees of non secular persecution’ from Bangladesh to use for Indian citizenship below the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) as quickly as attainable, and claimed their names will seem on the State’s voters’ listing.
“We request Bangladeshi Hindu refugees to enroll in CAA camps. On behalf of the BJP and the Rashtravadi Vichar Parivar, a number of camps are being organized, with computer systems, printers and laptops. Please go to these camps, contact the BJP mandals. Each mandal has a number of help camps occurring. Please apply, the Indian authorities and the West Bengal BJP will stand beside you,” Chief of Opposition in West Bengal Meeting and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari mentioned on Saturday.
He additionally clarified that Bangladeshi Hindus who’ve entered West Bengal attributable to non secular persecution “aren’t infiltrators, they’re refugees”.
“Until now, roughly 14,000 folks have utilized to the CAA. None of them have misplaced their jobs or stopped receiving any welfare advantages from the Middle or State. They have not confronted any bother… It’s the LoP’s Assure and request that, apply to CAA as quickly as attainable, your title will likely be on the voters’ listing,” Mr Adhikari added.
The CAA is a citizenship legislation that permits individuals belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan who entered into India on or earlier than 31.12.2014 to submit functions for Indian citizenship below a particular provision, in line with the House Ministry’s Indian Citizenship On-line Portal.
Notably, the Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order, 2025, additionally carried provisions for folks of the identical communities who entered India attributable to non secular persecution earlier than December 31, 2024.
The BJP is ready to prepare greater than 700 CAA camps throughout the State forward of an imposing Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the State’s electoral rolls and the Meeting polls in 2026. In West Bengal, the Matua The group specifically is predicted to profit largely from the CAA and is taken into account as a robust votebank for the BJP.
‘Don’t concern SIR’
Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar and Mr Adhikari held a joint rally at Gangarampur within the Dakshin Dinajpur district on Saturday. In the course of the rally, Mr Majumdar mentioned the folks of West Bengal whose names or whose dad and mom’ names are within the 2002 voters’ listing “needn’t concern SIR” and urged Hindu foreigners to use for citizenship below CAA provisions.
“In case your title or your dad and mom’ names don’t characteristic within the 2002 listing, you belong to one among two classes… for those who’re Hindu and from Bangladesh, we’ve made provisions so that you can grow to be an Indian citizen below CAA,” Mr Majumdar mentioned.
He added that the social gathering’s combat for 2026 is of “aar-paar” (two sides of a border). This assertion assumes significance in mild of the stark differentiation the saffron social gathering has made between ‘infiltrators’ and ‘refugees’ from neighboring international locations, within the context of voter listing revision and CAA. camps respectively.
This growth follows BJP State President Samik Bhattacharya’s social media put up on Friday, the place he accused the West Bengal authorities of issuing delayed delivery registrations in State-run hospitals of bordering. districts. For reference, delivery certificates are thought of a vital doc in proving one’s eligibility in the course of the voter listing revision.
Revealed – October 26, 2025 02:23 am IST