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Congress person Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and raised the issue of attacks connected Bengali-speaking people, particularly successful BJP-ruled States.
Chowdhury, a erstwhile Congress main successful West Bengal, urged the premier minister's involution successful helping halt specified attacks, which, helium said, could pb to communal hostility and perchance unit successful the state.
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"Their lone offence is that they talk successful Bengali language, which are often misunderstood by the acrophobic medication arsenic persons belonging to neighbouring Bangladesh and treated arsenic infiltrators," Mr. Chowdhury said successful a missive to PM Modi.
Several parts of West Bengal person a bulk Muslim colonisation and stock a borderline with Bangladesh, and communal hostility is rising among communities successful these areas arsenic a effect of specified attacks elsewhere successful the country, helium said.
The Congress person urged the Prime Minister to "sensitise each the authorities governments" against discrimination, violence, and persecution of migrant labourers from different parts of the country.
A 30-year-old migrant worker, Jewel Rana from the Jangipur portion successful Murshidabad territory successful West Bengal, was killed successful Sambalpur of Odisha connected Wednesday pursuing an altercation implicit a 'bidi'.
Two migrant workers successful Mumbai were besides arrested successful Mumbai connected suspicion of being amerciable immigrants from Bangladesh.
West Bengal Migrants Welfare Board has besides said that it received 1,143 complaints of harassment successful 10 months, particularly successful the BJP-ruled states.
