Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday (December 30, 2025) met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and raised the issue of attacks on Bengali-speaking people, especially in BJP-ruled States.
Chowdhury, a former Congress chief in West Bengal, urged the prime minister's intervention in helping stop such attacks, which, he said, could lead to communal tension and possibly violence in the state.
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"Their only offence is that they speak in Bengali language, which are often misunderstood by the concerned administration as persons belonging to neighbouring Bangladesh and treated as infiltrators," Mr. Chowdhury said in a letter to PM Modi.
Several parts of West Bengal have a majority Muslim population and share a border with Bangladesh, and communal tension is rising among communities in these areas as a result of such attacks elsewhere in the country, he said.
