Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) The general secretary and two assistant secretaries of a faction of the Matua Mahasangha, who are also associated with the Trinamool Congress, have been arrested following allegations of embezzlement involving the felling and sale of trees near the Harichand Guruchand Thakur temple in Bagdah in North 24 Parganas district.The accused belong to the Mamata Bala Thakur faction of the Matua Mahasangha, an organisation representing the Matua community. The local BJP leadership h…
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Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid a visit to Matua Thakur Mandir in Thakurnagar of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal ahead of his election rally there and recalled his meeting with Matua community matriarch Binapani Devi a few years ago. In a post on X, the Prime Minister also shared a photograph of him meeting Binapani Devi in 2019. “Today, when I was at the Matua Thakur Mandir, I remembered my previous visit to this Temple a few years ago, when I had …
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) On the death anniversary of Binapani Devi, the former head of Matua Mahasangha in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Centre and the ECI over “deliberate exclusion” of Matua voters from the electoral rolls.Matuas are people from the Hindu backward class community coming as refugees from neighbouring Bangladesh and settling in different pockets in the state, with their concentration mainly in the two districts of North …