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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) said that Sunali Khatun, a large pistillate who was deported to Bangladesh with her eight-year-old son, was pushed backmost into Bangladesh contempt an Indian national by the Border Security Force (BSF). Ms. Banerjee besides claimed that the Trinamool Congress fought to bring her backmost home.
“How are Indian citizens being labelled Bangladeshi? Was Sonali Khatun Bangladeshi? She was Indian. Despite her having Indian [documents] you pushed her to Bangladesh by the Border Security Force,” the Chief Minister said targeting the BJP-led Centre, during her rally astatine the Gazole assemblage crushed successful Malda connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025).
She claimed that portion the Supreme Court gave an bid for her to beryllium brought back, it was her enactment that took Ms. Khatun’s lawsuit to tribunal and fought for her return.
Hours earlier Ms. Banerjee’s speech, the Union Government agreed to bring Ms. Khatun and her insignificant lad backmost from Bangladesh connected “humanitarian grounds” aft the Supreme Court’s intervention.
In July this year, a large Ms. Khatun was recovered to person been among a radical of six migrants from West Bengal’s Birbhum territory who were picked up from Delhi and forcibly deported to Bangladesh. In a video message, 1 of the members of that radical had appealed to the West Bengal Chief Minister to repatriate them. The radical included 3 minors.
Earlier this year, respective migrant workers from West Bengal were being detained successful antithetic parts of the state connected suspicions of being Bangladeshi, and were being pushed to Bangladesh. During her code connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025), the Chief Minister spoke of the battle connected Bengali-speaking migrant workers and raised questions connected wherefore radical are being “tortured” for speaking Bengali successful Odisha, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, oregon Maharashtra.
“After a agelong wait, justness has yet prevailed. The Central Government has agreed, connected humanitarian grounds, to bring backmost large Sunali Khatun and her insignificant son. She was illegally deported to Bangladesh simply for speaking Bengali, and her ordeal crossed the borderline stands arsenic a stark illustration of wherefore BJP is called Bangla-Birodhi (anti-Bengali) Zamindars,” Trinamool MP and Chairperson of the State’s Migrant Workers Welfare Board Samirul Islam alleged connected X connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025).
In his societal media post, Mr. Islam noted the Supreme Court’s reflection that Ms. Khatun’s biologic begetter is an Indian national who has not been deported.
“The Court [said]… determination is nary ground to statement Sunali a Bangladeshi. Under Indian law, since her begetter is Indian, Sunali is automatically an Indian citizen, and truthful her lad is besides an Indian citizen,” the Trinamool MP said.
