Mamata to hold protest rally in Matua heartland over SIR

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a rally at Trikone Park on November 25 before leading a 3-km march from Chandpara to Thakurnagar, the Matua spiritual headquarters, as part of her campaign against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Banerjee’s move marks the latest escalation in her campaign against the SIR of electoral rolls, a drive she has denounced as “coercive” and “chaotic,” and which has triggered deep anxiety across the refugee belts of North and South Bengal.
Her choice of Bongaon, the symbolic seat of Matua political consciousness, reflects both the scale of unrest and the high-stakes battle for a community that has shaped Bengal’s electoral arithmetic for nearly a decade. TMC leaders said Banerjee’s message in Bongaon will be that the state government stands with affected people and will “not allow anyone to intimidate them.