#Mamata Banerjee stated individuals who converse Bengali had been being illegally pushed again to #Bangladesh by BJP-ruled states
#West Bengal chief minister #Mamata Banerjee meets the meeting marshals allegedly injured throughout a scuffle with BJP legislators in the course of the monsoon session in #Kolkata on Tuesday. (ANI)
“We have acquired data that 300-400 individuals from #Itahar (in north Bengal’s #Cooch Behar district bordering #Bangladesh) have been rounded up and forcibly held inside a home in #Rajasthan. They had been branded as #Bangladeshis as a result of they converse Bengali though they confirmed their Indian identification paperwork,” Banerjee informed reporters on the state meeting advanced.
“I’ll convey this to the discover of the Prime Minister. People who converse Bengali are being illegally pushed again to #Bangladesh by BJP-ruled states,” the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson stated.
The chief minister alleged that bona fide residents of #West Bengal are being selectively contested in BJP-ruled states.
She stated: “Anybody who got here from #Bangladesh after March 1971 (when the nation was born) is a bonafide Indian citizen. If talking Bengali is a criminal offense then let the Centre ban the language that (Rabindranath) Tagore and Subhas Chandra Bose spoke. We have 15 million migrant staff in Bengal. People from different states work right here as properly. Is {that a} crime? Similar incidents have occurred in Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Maharashtra.”
Mosaraf Hussen, the TMC legislator from #Itahar, alleged that these allegedly held by the #Rajasthan administration are saved in a home named Ambedkar Bhawan at Bhiwadi metropolis, which was a part of the National Capital Region (NCR).
Hussen stated he introduced the matter to the discover of the chief minister on Tuesday.
“A person from #Itahar someway managed to name me from #Rajasthan and knowledgeable me that these males are being forcibly held inside a home named Ambedkar Bhawan. They weren’t allowed to contact the police. I sought the chief minister’s intervention,” Hussen stated.
The allegation was levelled days after the #West Bengal police helped a migrant employee and his spouse return house after they had been declared unlawful #Bangladeshi immigrants by Maharashtra police and deported to the neighbouring nation by the Border Security Force (BSF).
Fazal Mondal and his spouse Taslima, who’re residents of North 24 Parganas district, had been arrested on June 10 from the Naya Nagar space in Mumbai and deported to #Bangladesh on June 14, the household informed the media. The Border Guard #Bangladesh (BGB) returned them on June 16.
On June 15, three migrant staff from Murshidabad district and two from East Burdwan district managed to return to India. These males had been held by Mumbai police on June 12 and the BSF deported them on June 14. They, too, claimed that they had been arrested regardless of exhibiting paperwork akin to Aadhaar and PAN playing cards.
BSF has not commented on these incidents or responded to emails despatched by HT on this connection.
Samik Bhattacharya, chief spokesperson of the Bengal BJP unit, stated motion was being taken in opposition to unlawful #Bangladeshi immigrants in non-BJP dominated states too. “Such arrests are being made in Tamil Nadu as properly though it isn’t a BJP-ruled state. The identification paperwork carried by a bit of Muslim, Bengali-speaking migrant staff have been discovered to be faux in all of the states the place the administrations have cracked down on unlawful immigrants. I knowledgeable a number of Bengal ministers about this,” Bhattacharya stated.
“Secondly, by making these allegations, #Mamata Banerjee and her social gathering are spreading hatred in opposition to individuals from different Indian states, particularly those that converse Hindi. Many migrant staff from these states have informed us that they’re being stigmatised,” he added.
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