Only Remembered During Elections?
The Free Press Journal|May 15, 2024
People of the Matua community generally feel that they are only mentioned and used when the polls are announced. The sect that belongs to the Namasudra caste, came to West Bengal from Bangladesh following the Partition.
Only Remembered During Elections?

MaThe Matua Mahasangha is an umbrella organisation that was formed through religious reforms. The Matua hasangha was established by Hatichand Thakur in the mid19th Century, but the movement gained momentum under the leadership of Guruchand Thakur the son of Harichand.

The community has shifted its political base from Congress in the seventies to the BJP, but "tilted" to an extent to the Trinamool Congress (TMC), again, during the West Bengal Assembly elections in 2021.

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