“The Calcutta Excessive Court docket is scheduled to listen to the 2 habeas corpus petitions filed towards the Delhi Police over the unlawful detention of a pair from Murarai in Birbhum, together with their minor son. The household later got here to know that that they had been illegally deported to Bangladesh. Below the management of @MamataOfficial, we'll struggle the anti-Bengali actions of BJP-ruled states till our final breath,” chairman of the Migrant Employees Welfare Board and Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam posted on X.
This comes at a time when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been claiming that Bengali-speaking migrant staff are being labelled as “Bangladeshis” in BJP-ruled states.
The very best variety of migrant staff are getting detained in Odisha, sources mentioned. Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant had, within the latest previous, written to his Odisha counterpart concerning these detentions.
Chatting with ET, Islam mentioned 227 migrant staff have been detained by Jharsuguda Sadar and different police stations in Odisha on the grounds that they had been Bangladeshis. They hail from Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia and South 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal.
“Round 18 folks from the Paikar police station jurisdiction in Birbhum have been detained at Brajrajnagar police station of Odisha as they had been suspected to be Bangladeshis,” folks within the know mentioned.“This can be a recent spherical of detentions by the BJP-ruled Odisha authorities, following the sooner confinement of a whole bunch of migrant staff from Bengal. What's their fault? That they converse Bengali?” Islam mentioned.Looking for the intervention of PM Narendra Modi and Union House Minister Amit Shah, Islam posted on X, “As soon as once more, atrocities towards Bengali-speaking migrant staff proceed in Odisha's Jharsuguda district.”
Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra (TMC) has additionally been vocal in regards to the atrocities on migrant staff from Nadia.
