Bengali-speaking employees focused in BJP-ruled states: Mamata Banerjee

Claiming that Bengali-speaking folks from the state have been being “branded as Bangladeshis” in some BJP-ruled states, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday stated this can’t be allowed.

Banerjee instructed reporters in her Meeting chamber that she had data that 300-400 Bengali-speaking migrant employees have been confined in a constructing in Rajasthan in the course of the day regardless of displaying legitimate paperwork.

“Is it against the law to talk Bangla, the language of Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda, amongst different luminaries? I feel Prime Minister Narendra Modi shouldn’t be conscious of this growth. I’ll draw his consideration,” she stated.

She claimed that other than Rajasthan, such incidents additionally passed off in BJP-ruled Delhi and Madhya Pradesh prior to now.

To a query, Banerjee stated the chief secretary is taking over the most recent such subject along with his counterpart in Rajasthan. In keeping with Nabanna sources, the incident allegedly passed off at Bhiwadi, a deliberate metropolis in Rajasthan’s Khairthal-Tijara district and part of the Nationwide Capital Area of Delhi.

It’s situated 32 km from Khairthal-Tijara metropolis, the district headquarters, 85 km from town of Alwar and located on the Rajasthan-Haryana border.

“So far as my information goes, whoever arrived (in India) till 1971 is an Indian citizen,” Banerjee added, and stated 1.5 crore migrant employees from completely different states are employed in numerous models in Bengal.