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Congress person Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury connected Sunday (January 4, 2026) met migrant workers from West Bengal successful Odisha’s Sambalpur and expressed interest implicit “parallel policing” successful immoderate States wherever Bengali labourers were allegedly being asked by backstage persons to supply their individuality proof, urging instrumentality enforcement agencies to halt the practice.
Mr. Chowdhury, a five-time erstwhile MP from Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency successful Murshidabad territory of West Bengal, besides assured the migrant workers that the Congress was with them.
“I met immoderate Bengali migrant workers present and told them that Congress is with them. I besides informed them that the substance has been taken up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Mr. Chowdhury told reporters.
He expressed interest implicit the sidesplitting of 30-year-old Jewel Rana, a Bengali-speaking migrant idiosyncratic from Murshidabad’s Jangipur, successful Sambalpur past period pursuing an altercation implicit a ‘bidi’. It was besides alleged that the assailants had asked Jewel Rana to amusement his Aadhaar card, suspecting him to beryllium a Bangladeshi infiltrator, a complaint denied by the section police.
“There is simply a parallel policing strategy successful immoderate States, arsenic backstage persons are asking migrant workers to amusement their individuality proof. This indispensable beryllium stopped, and the constabulary should guarantee that nary 1 is harassed by the goons due to the fact that of their suspicion that a migrant idiosyncratic mightiness beryllium a Bangladeshi infiltrator,” Mr. Chowdhury said.
The erstwhile Congress person successful the Lok Sabha said that helium has raised the contented with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mr. Chowdhury besides said that helium was readying to bring the substance to the announcement of President Droupadi Murmu, who hails from Odisha, Sambalpur MP and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi.
“I volition combat for the information of Bengali migrant workers moving successful antithetic States,” the Congress person said.
He besides met section Congress leaders and urged them to stay alert to forestall specified incidents successful future.
Mr. Chowdhury besides met Northern Range Inspector General Himanshu Kumar Lal and Sambalpur Superintendent of Police Mukesh Kumar Bhamoo during his one-day sojourn to Sambalpur.
“The section constabulary person taken punctual enactment and arrested the accused persons wrong six hours of the incident. The constabulary volition besides record a complaint expanse precise soon and guarantee that the accused are punished,” Mr. Lal told reporters aft gathering Mr. Chowdhury.
Mr. Lal said that the constabulary person been moving with the argumentation of ‘zero tolerance’ for specified incidents and conducting regular patrolling successful susceptible areas.
The constabulary person besides launched an consciousness campaign, urging them not to instrumentality the instrumentality into their hands, helium said.
Accompanied by immoderate Congress leaders from neighbouring West Bengal, wherever assembly elections are owed this year, Mr. Chowdhury visited Dhanipali successful Ainthapali constabulary presumption country and met immoderate Bengali-speaking migrant workers.
They besides visited the spot wherever Jewel Rana was hacked to decease connected December 24 past year.
During his enactment with the migrant workers, Mr. Chowdhury enquired astir their well-being and asked them not to interest astir their information successful Odisha.
Mr. Chowdhury said that the radical of West Bengal and Odisha person centuries-old cordial relations.
Thousands of workers from West Bengal enactment successful Odisha and vice-versa, helium said.
“However, present the concern is taking a antagonistic crook successful the sanction of Bangladeshi infiltration. Migrant workers from West Bengal are being subjected to atrocities, violence, and murders. This is not acceptable to some States,” helium said.
The Congress person said that migrant workers determination to different States seeking livelihood and their volition should not beryllium suspected.
“Please bash not see each Bengali-speaking radical arsenic Bangladeshi,” helium added.
