The BJP is accusing the BJP of chasing Bengal’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) authorities of turning a blind eye to questionable points resulting from election impulses, Mamata Banerjee-Led’s celebration has tried to counter it by resolving the issue of colonial colony intriet. Delhi, Assam.
On Wednesday, Banerjee will lead the rally in Kolkata in protest of the “humiliation” of Bengali migrant employees. Her celebration believes the difficulty can have broad resonance given the huge variety of individuals from Bengal engaged in casual jobs exterior of the state. The TMC believes this technique will as soon as once more impress voters that it’s extra involved that the BJP is a “Bohiragatos” celebration that has no coronary heart within the pursuits of Bengali immigrants and polarizes the political ambiance by easing fears about undocumented immigration from Bandedesh.
“This high-pitched marketing campaign not solely spreads the message that the BJP is anti-Bengali and can’t management Bengal, but additionally sends a message to migrant employees. A minimum of half one million migrants have been immigrated from the state, with the vast majority of them coming from minority communities.
The marketing campaign follows a sequence of incidents going through Bengali immigrants in different states. On July 11, Assam Prime Minister Himantabiswasharma, who’s on a deportation drive, lined up when he stated individuals recognized their native language as their native language from Bangladesh within the 2011 census.
“…In Assam, Assam is everlasting as each the state and the official language. But when they write Bengali within the census, it would quantify solely the variety of foreigners within the state,” he informed reporters in Guwahati.
Just a few days in the past, on July 7, Odisha police detained 444 migrant employees in Jalsuguda district, suspecting that they had been Bangladeshi residents. The immigrants got here from West Bengal districts, together with Nadia, Masidabad, Malda, Pava Medinipur, Bilbum, Pava Baldaman and South 24 Pargana. Roughly 50 had been later launched, some after offering further documentation.
The following day (July eighth), the ability and water provide was minimize off at Bengal-dominated Jai Hind Colony in Delhi. This was based mostly on civil court docket directions in Could after the ability theft allegations got here to gentle.
Banerjee and different TMC management have taken a robust stance on every of those incidents. He focused Salma, the ruling Bengal celebration, and in X’s publish he stated he was “spewing poison by his assertion.”
“The place does this hatred come from? Why is that this Bengali individuals and Bangla? Is it as a result of the BJP was humiliated and rejected by the Bengali individuals? That is the plan to seize Bengal by Bengali, prejudice and xenophobia.
Within the Delhi incident, the CM stated “compelled evictions are at present underway” within the colony. “Talking Bengali doesn’t make Bangladesh… As a result of failed try to steal Bengali individuals in West Bengal, the BJP is exporting Bangla Bilodi (anti-Bengali) agenda to different components of the nation in a strategic and systematic method,” she stated.
On Monday, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghosh protested within the colony. TMC’s Krishnanagar MP, Mahua Moitra, displays the industrial in her response to the Odisha difficulty. She stated that no such incident occurred in “23 years of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) authorities in Naveen Patnaik.” “This has turn out to be a every day prevalence because the BJP got here to energy (in Odisha),” she stated.
Moitra stated, “50% of Odisha’s tourism revenue comes from Bengali vacationers. They keep at your resort, eat at your restaurant and go to pilgrimage websites. What if Bengali vacationers cease going to Odisha?”
BJP response
The state’s BJP has come to its place because the TMC marshalled leaders and employees on the difficulty. Newly elected Bengali BJP President Samik Bhatacharya alleged that of Odisha’s 444 detained individuals, 335, had “pretend paperwork issued by the TMC.”
“TMC is killing India to Bangladeshi intruders who work in different states however return to Bengal simply to vote for Mamata Banerjee. All states have to be very cautious whereas hiring employees or workers who’ve pretend Bengal issued paperwork.
Rebutting this, the TMC wrote to X that “the BJP part was operating a false info marketing campaign.” “If they’re ‘Bangladesh’, let the Odisha authorities current documentary proof,” the celebration stated. It known as on the BJP to cease criminalizing the whole neighborhood simply because they communicate Bengali.
Final Friday, the Calcutta Excessive Court docket sought an in depth report on allegations that migrant employees from West Bengal had been detained in Delhi and despatched to Bangladesh. “Has the employees belonging to West Bengal been detained from Delhi and despatched to Bangladesh?” the court docket requested. It directed Chief Manoj Panto to contact his counterparts in Delhi and submit a complete report on the matter.
Sources say on June 18, six Bengali-speaking individuals had been taken into custody by Rohini police in Delhi and brought to N Katju police station. On Saturday, the TMC continued to extend rhetoric on the subject, writing in X that the BJP is on a mission to “deprive us of our individuals of dignity, rights and shelter,” and can turn out to be “stateless” when he involves energy in 2026.
