Four weeks after Calcutta High Court directed the repatriation of six migrant workers pushed into Bangladesh, they continue to languish in the foreign country, including pregnant Sunali Bibi and five others. The Trinamool Congress leadership has once again blamed the Union government for the workers’ plight and failure to bring them back.
Shashi Panja, the Minister of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare of West Bengal accused that the Bharatiya Janta Party’s central government has flouted the Calcutta High Court order which was passed on September 26.
Kin of ‘wrongfully’ deported Bengali families breathe sigh of relief after Calcutta HC orders repatriation
“The deportation was wrong. Who fought the battle? The Trinamool Congress... The central government did not take a single step to bring them back... They continued to try and label the six people as Bangladeshis, so they remain in Bangladesh,” Ms Panja further said on Friday (October 24).
Samirul Islam, Rajya Sabha MP, and Chairman of Migrant Workers Welfare Board in West Bengal said that a Bangladesh Court also determined that these six people were not Bangladeshi nationals and asked for arrangements to return them back to India.
