How BJP, Trinamool are seeking political gain from NRC issue in Bengal

BJP leaders believe that if the NRC helps them attract at least 60 per cent of the state's Hindu voters, the party should see major seat gains in the 2021 Assembly polls

Both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) are seeking to make political gains from the issue of the proposed introduction of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in West Bengal and the effort to secure a parliamentary nod to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, fear of which allegedly has claimed 11 lives in the state so far. 

While BJP leaders are insisting on finding infiltrators and driving them out of the country — a move they claim would help restore West Bengal to the hands of its original Bengali bhadraloks and inhabitants — the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC is