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Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday (January 7, 2026) met with migrant workers at Tapan under West Bengal’s Balurghat constituency, which is led by BJP MP and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar. The TMC leader said that the migrant workers did not person enactment from the BJP person erstwhile they were detained successful Maharashtra.
The 2 workers travel from Balurghat were detained successful Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi for allegations of being Bangladeshi nationals. They remained behind bars for astir 7 months.
“They (migrant workers) were heckled and harassed for speaking successful Bengali... In which connection does MP Sukanta Majumdar speak? If speaking successful Bengali means being Bangladeshi, helium (Sukanta Majumdar) excessively is Bangladeshi,” Mr. Banerjee said aft gathering with the 2 migrant workers, Asit Sarkar and Gautam Barman, astatine their home.
Mr. Banerjee, a Lok Sabha MP himself and second-in-command successful the TMC, raised questions about Mr. Majumdar’s alleged deficiency of enactment to assistance the 2 migrant workers and nonaccomplishment to pass the Maharashtra authorities that 2 radical from his constituency were wrongfully detained.
He asked Mr. Majumdar to instrumentality work for the people who voted for and helped him triumph the elections.
The Lok Sabha MP further added that erstwhile a idiosyncratic is in need their enactment does not spot party colours before helping.
“We sought assistance from Sukanta Majumdar... I spoke to section leaders arsenic well, but they did not perceive to our requests. After 3 months, I reached retired to TMC leaders done a section here,” a BJP idiosyncratic said portion interacting with Mr. Banerjee connected Wednesday (January 7).
