India, Sept. 2 -- Septuagenarian Asim Mondal, a resident of Baghanchra village in West Bengal's Nadia district, was seated on a wooden bench along with a few other villagers in one end of the room. Everyone was carrying some documents in plastic bags or files and waiting anxiously for their turn even as a man was sitting in the other end of the room, busy filling up some forms on a computer.

The house where Mondal and the other villagers gathered belongs to Jagannath Sarkar, Lok Sabha MP of the Bharatiya Janata Party (MJP) from Ranaghat.

"I came to India with my family in 1988 from Bagerhat in Bangladesh. We settled in Nadia district and have been living here since then. I am a farmer. Even though I have an Aadhaar card I don't have a c...