PM to address first rally in Bengal on Saturday after draft roll release amid SIR concerns of Matuas

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit West Bengal's Nadia district on Saturday (December 20, 2025), where he will inaugurate national highway projects and address a public rally, amid heightened political tensions over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the State.

This would be Mr. Modi’s first visit to the State since the draft SIR rolls were published and the third in the past five months.

The Prime Minister, political observers said, is likely to address the growing unease amongst the Matua community members post the publication of the draft electoral rolls from his strategically located BJP rally venue in the Taherpur area of Ranaghat, not far from the heartland of the Namasudra Hindu community in adjacent Bongaon.