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Maharashtra on Renaming Spree; Modi’s 'Viksit Bharat' May Not Sway Voters so BJP Turns to Polarisation Again
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Maharashtra on Renaming Spree; Modi’s 'Viksit Bharat' May Not Sway Voters so BJP Turns to Polarisation Again

Mar 13, 2024
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March 13, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

Apprehensions over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act applications website asking for proof of stay in India before 2014 and of residency in an origin country – documents that applicants don’t always have – have dampened celebrations of the CAA rules notification among some of West Bengal’s Matua community. Matuas are Dalits who moved to India from what is today Bangladesh mostly after Partition. Shantanu Thakur, a BJP MP from the state, has tried to reassure those interested in applying

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