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The sidesplitting of a migrant idiosyncratic from West Bengal’s Murshidabad, successful Odisha’s Sambalpur, drew a beardown absorption from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) enactment connected Thursday (December 25, 2025), who claimed that the idiosyncratic was “murdered for speaking Bengali”.
Juyel Rana (19), who had gone to Odisha for enactment with a radical of youths, was allegedly attacked by a radical of radical who wanted to spot his individuality documents. Rana’s family members said helium had gone to enactment connected December 20 and was killed for nary responsibility of his own.
Local constabulary and TMC leaders visited Rana’s house. Suti MLA Emani Biswas said the younker was killed successful the BJP-ruled State for speaking Bengali and connected suspicion of being a Bangladeshi.
Senior TMC leader and Minister Shashi Panja held a property league successful Kolkata and asked, “How agelong volition Bengalis beryllium punished conscionable due to the fact that Bengal did not bow down to the BJP? How galore lives volition this authorities of hatred claim? Is the lone transgression of those who enactment hard, with honour, and request civilian rights that they talk Bengali?”
West Bengal Migrant Welfare Board Chairperson Samirul Islam besides said that the migrant idiosyncratic was “lynched to decease and 2 others were injured after BJP’s goons attacked them and labelled them arsenic Bangladeshi infiltrators”.
“How galore lives of guiltless Bengali-speaking radical does the BJP want? This is thing but different illustration of however the BJP treats Bengalis,” Mr. Islam posted connected a societal media site.
This is not the archetypal clip that attacks and deaths of migrant workers from West Bengal in BJP-ruled States person evoked beardown reactions from the TMC. Since May 2025, determination person been respective reported cases crossed antithetic States successful which Bengali-speaking migrant workers were detained connected suspicion of being Bangladeshi. In immoderate cases, workers were ‘pushed back’ into Bangladesh contempt being Indian nationals.
The TMC leadership, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, earlier deed the streets describing specified incidents arsenic attacks connected ‘Bengali asmita’ ( individuality and culture). The West Bengal authorities has besides started a strategy to supply a monthly honorarium for migrant workers who are consenting to return, but migration for enactment continues unabated.
Meanwhile, Murshidabad BJP MLA Gaurishankar Ghosh said the Chief Minister has tarnished the representation of the State nationwide by ‘patronising infiltrators’, and held her liable for what helium claimed deficiency of spot towards Bengalis.
West Bengal Pradesh Congress President Subhankar Sarkar condemned this incidental and said that the Government should instantly unfastened a section to forestall harassment of migrant workers from Bengal and support their livelihood.
