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Home Truths: Opposition Questions Minister's Nationality, BJP Calls Row 'Baseless'
News 18Why is Nisith Pramanik silent on the question of his nationality? This is an issue many are raising these days in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, while the Bharatiya Janata Party has termed the matter “baseless”. BJP district president Malati Rava said, “If necessary, people can get to know under the Right to Information Act which minister is a resident of which area.” The party’s state committee member Diptiman Sengupta said, “I don’t think there is a need to answer some baseless questions.” According to some BJP leaders, Nisith is a state minister with two important portfolios of home and sports. “Nisith’s birthplace is Bhetaguri, a town in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal,” a BJP leader said. The allegation that the union minister of state for home affairs is a Bangladeshi is completely false.” Several newspapers published from Dhaka reported jubilant celebrations in Nisith Pramanik’s “ancestral village” on his new appointment in the Indian home ministry.
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