'Treated as infiltrators': Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary meets PM Modi; flags 'violence against migrant workers'

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Tuesday met Congress person Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury astatine his residence successful Delhi and raised the contented of attacks connected Bengali-speaking people, particularly successful BJP-ruled states.Chowdhury, a erstwhile West Bengal Congress chief, urged the Prime Minister’s involution to assistance halt specified attacks.He claimed that specified incidents could flare up communal hostility successful the state.“Their lone offence is that they talk the Bengali language, which is often misunderstood by the acrophobic medication arsenic meaning they beryllium to neighbouring Bangladesh and are treated arsenic infiltrators,” Chowdhury said successful a missive to PM Modi.“It is ironical to enactment that administrative officers, including the police, bash not differentiate betwixt ‘Banglabhasi’ and ‘Bangladeshi’ people. Without committing immoderate offence, they are lodged successful jailhouse oregon detention centres, resulting successful sedate injustice,” helium added.The gathering comes arsenic West Bengal gears up for the Assembly elections scheduled for May 2026.Chowdhury, however, played down the visit, claiming it was “not political”.

Meanwhile, Union Minister Amit Shah, who is connected a three-day sojourn to West Bengal, is scheduled to clasp back-to-back closed-door meetings with the BJP’s MLAs and MPs, too representatives successful assorted civic bodies.He is besides expected to conscionable the apical brass of the RSS successful the state.After his accomplishment connected Monday, Shah held a gathering astatine the BJP bureau successful Salt Lake to instrumentality banal of the party’s organisational preparedness for the upcoming polls.