BJP goverments concentrating on Bengalis; labelling them Bangladeshi for talking their tongue: Mamata

The Chief Minister had previously alleged that migrant employees from the State are being focused in BJP-ruled states. On this event, Ms. Banerjee accused the double-engine states of language-based discrimination. File
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Accusing Bharatiya Janata Get together governments in several components of the nation of concentrating on Bengali-speaking residents, West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee mentioned on Monday (June 16, 2025) that state governments are labelling residents of Bengal with legitimate paperwork as unlawful Bangladeshi immigrants.

Addressing the State Meeting, the Chief Minister mentioned that BJP dominated governments are depriving migrant employees of their proper to earn a livelihood regardless of their possessing voter IDs, PAN, and Aadhaar playing cards.

“Regardless of having all of the authorized paperwork. Bengalis are being pushed into Bangladesh. If anybody speaks Bengali, they grow to be Bangladeshi? That is taking place in each state that has double engine governments,” Ms. Banerjee mentioned.

Double engine discrimination

The Chief Minister had previously alleged that migrant employees from the State are being focused in BJP-ruled states. On this event Ms. Banerjee accused the double engine states of language-based discrimination.

Her remarks got here a day after three residents of West Bengal, working in Mumbai, have been allegedly pressured into Bangladesh by the BSF. The migrant employees, two from Murshidabad and one from Purba Bardhaman, nevertheless, have been repatriated on Sunday (June 15, 2025) to West Bengal after intervention by the State authorities.

The Chief Minister additionally focused the West Bengal State BJP President, Sukanta Majumdar, calling him a “half minister.” Mr. Majumdar is the Minister of State for Training & Growth of the Northeastern Area and has been embroiled in an argument for hurling a poster resembling a pair of slippers in direction of a police officer throughout protests close to the Chief Minister’s residence. “There’s a half-central minister who’s in love with slippers. Why don’t they (BJP) open slipper outlets?” she mentioned with out naming anybody.

Denial of central funds

Ms. Banerjee spoke out on the denial of central funds to the State. She mentioned that the Union Authorities despatched 155 groups to the State in search of corruption and located nothing. She burdened that funds for MGNREGA have been stopped by the Centre and the State Authorities has subsequently began its personal scheme named ‘Karmashree,’ as a part of which it has created 1.5 crore mandays below numerous schemes.

“Bengal has topped highway and rural housing challenge rankings 5 occasions in a row… Nobody can derail us or cease us from realising our goals,” the Chief Minister mentioned.

Ms. Banerjee additionally spoke in regards to the political courtesy her occasion displayed over the Air India aircraft tragedy in Ahmedabad. “BJP looted the nation and offered it. Even on the day so many died in Gujarat, we didn’t converse a phrase. That’s referred to as political courtesy,” Ms. Banerjee mentioned.

BJP legislators raised slogans whereas the Chief Minister was addressing the State Meeting. Throughout proceedings within the Home on Monday (June 16, 2025) two BJP legislators have been escorted out of the Home. The BJP legislator Manoj Oraon was suspended for a day by the Speaker Biman Banerjee for unruly behaviour.