Highlighting that the Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights organisation, has raised the issues of harassment, persecution, and illegal deportation of Bengali-speaking people of India by the Bharatiya Janata Party governments in States, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday (July 26, 2025) said that such targeting should stop at once.
She called the development a “shame” and said that now even international human rights organisations have started taking note “of the linguistic terrorism unleashed in India”.
Taking to social media, Ms. Banerjee said the human rights organisation has released a report saying what have been saying: Bengali-speaking Indians (of different castes and communities) are being arbitrarily abused and pushed out in a concerted manner by the BJP establishment.
‘Arbitrary expulsion’
“Elaine Pearson, Asia Director at HRW, has on record said, BJP is fuelling discrimination by arbitrarily expelling Bengalis from the country, including Indian citizens. The authorities’ claims that they are managing irregular migration are unconvincing,” the Trinamool Congress chairperson has said.
