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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Friday (January 16, 2026) alleged that migrant labourers were being tortured for speaking Bengali successful BJP-ruled States.
Ms. Banerjee, who headed for northbound Bengal to be administrative programmes, accused the BJP of "planning to incite riots successful the state", arsenic "the enactment realised that it would not beryllium capable to triumph the 2026 assembly elections".
Referring to a protestation successful Murshidabad's Beldanga implicit attacks connected migrant workers extracurricular West Bengal, she said the choler of the number assemblage was “legitimate”.
The protestation stemmed from repeated incidents of unit against migrant workers, she said.
“Migrant labourers from Bengal are being tortured lone successful BJP-ruled states. We basal by their families,” she claimed.
Locals successful Murshidabad blocked National Highway 12 and burnt tyres connected Friday (January 16) to protestation against the alleged attacks connected migrant workers from the territory successful different States, disrupting vehicular question connected the thoroughfare, constabulary said.
The demonstrators alleged that migrants from the territory person been facing atrocities successful different States for speaking Bengali.
The Beldanga protestation erupted aft quality dispersed astir the decease of a Murshidabad autochthonal who had migrated to Jharkhand for work, an serviceman said.
The Chief Minister besides deed retired astatine the Election Commission for introducing changes successful the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Bengal, claiming that "around 100 radical had mislaid their lives owed to anxiety" related to the elector database revision exercise.
"Protect dignity, impartiality of your chair, lone past radical volition respect you," Ms. Banerjee told the main predetermination commissioner, amid the SIR controversy.
