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Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a video clip broadcast by a Bengali news channel in which allegedly derogatory language was used by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against people from the Scheduled Caste community.The Commission’s intervention comes at a politically sensitive time, with the state in the midst of Assembly elections, and has triggered fresh debate over the content and context of the remarks …