the Trinamul Congress candidate for East Burdwan to the Matuas stronghold and offered puja at the Matua community temple of Harichand Thakur, the founder of the sect. East Burdwan constituency ...
Both of them come from the Scheduled Caste community and hail from the line of Harichand Thakur, the great Matua reformer. The family holds command over the entire Matua community in West Bengal.