Cooch Behar was a TMC stronghold which is ready to be clear swept by the BJP

Cooch Behar, the district the place TMC received 8 seats out of 9 within the final meeting election appears to be slipping out of the fingers of Mamata Banerjee this time. Rajbongshis or Koch-Rajbongshis, the folks indigenous to the area, need the massive variety of Bangladeshis who’ve infiltrated the district to be thrown out of the district, and BJP is the one occasion supporting the National Registrar of Citizens.In the 2019 common election, the Amit Shah-led occasion received the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency, using on the promise of CAA-NRC. In order to maintain the Muslim voters (who represent round one-third of the state’s voter base) on her aspect, Mamata Banerjee vehemently opposed CAA-NRC; this introduced the Muslim voters nearer to her occasion however pushed the communities like Matua and Rajbongshi away.It have to be famous that Mamata Banerjee has been the face of Islamic appeasement within the state of West Bengal and she or he has made NRC a central problem of her narrative in keeping with her appeasement insurance policies. The ‘Bangladeshi’ immigrants additionally translate right into a prolific vote financial institution.It is related to say right here that although the Bangladeshi immigrants aren’t lawful residents of India, there have been reviews about such immigrants procuring pretend Voter ID playing cards and due to this fact such immigrants would possibly even train voting rights illegally. By opposing the NRC, the TMC has created a vote financial institution for itself. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is, due to this fact, trying to avert an train like NRC in her state and solidify the rising vote financial institution.It is ironic the way it was Mamata Banerjee who had flagged the difficulty of Bangladeshi immigrants for the primary time in Parliament. In 2005, she had acknowledged within the Lok Sabha, “The infiltration in Bengal has become a disaster now… I have both the Bangladeshi & the Indian voters list. This is a very serious matter. I would like to know when would it be discussed in the House?”Now the query that arises is what has modified within the final 14 years which has led to an entire U-turn within the TMC supremo’s stance over the difficulty. In 2005, Mamata Banerjee was seen because the principal opposition drive to the Communist regime within the state. The left regime was blamed for welcoming ‘aliens’ within the state of West Bengal by Mamata Banerjee leading to an enormous problem for the Indian democracy as these ‘aliens’ allegedly discovered their approach into the voters’ listing.14 years down the road, political circumstances have gone a sea change within the state of West Bengal. The left has misplaced its steam within the state and whereas the TMC has dominated West Bengal politics for fairly a while, BJP has challenged it strongly within the latest previous.The West Bengal CM who had opposed the inflow of unlawful Bangladeshi immigrants tooth and nail on the ground of the decrease home of the Parliament 14 years in the past, is now militating in opposition to the concept of figuring out unlawful immigrants. By opposing the NRC, the TMC has discovered a brand new vote financial institution for itself and if the ‘aliens’ had been to be pushed out, the TMC can be the most important loser within the political context of West Bengal. The Mamata-led occasion would find yourself shedding a loyal vote financial institution that has been created out of its sturdy opposition to any NRC-like train within the state.However, the opposition to CAA-NRC additionally means shedding votes of the bulk Hindu group, and that is what is occurring within the Northern and Western areas of the state, the place the Hindu group fully deserted Mamata Banerjee within the final common election itself and anticipated to pave the best way for BJP CM within the state.