"For Mamata Banerjee, there's the Rajbhanshi vote bank that she has to consolidate and also the Muslim vote bank that she has to consolidate. So that was one of the reasons why she had come out against the CAA-NRC laws earlier," journalist Ishadrita Lahiri said in an online discussion with Beatroot News' Faye D'Souza and The Quint's Aditya Menon. "The angle [Mamata] is trying to take now is that 'the BJP is trying to disenfranchise and take away citizenship from a certain section of people' and that, especially ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections where it's going to be her against Prime Minister Modi, will help her consolidate these vote banks which are crucial for West Bengal," Lahiri further said. To watch the entire discussion, click here.