West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre for what, she called, its policy of harassing and mistreating Bengali-speaking people across the country and warned the saffron party of dire political consequences if it did not put an immediate stop to such actions.
As reported by PTI, Banerjee also alleged that the ruling dispensation at the Centre was ‘influencing the Election Commission of India’ to achieve its political ambitions across states.
She was speaking at a public meeting after holding a protest march in rain-drenched Kolkata against the alleged torture of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states.
“I will challenge the central government notices which were surreptitiously sent to BJP-ruled states to harass Bengali-speaking people and detain them at the slightest suspicion,” the Trinamool Congress supremo alleged at the rally, which terminated at the Dorina Crossing in central Kolkata.
“I am ashamed and disheartened at the Centre and the BJP’s attitude towards Bengalis,” Banerjee claimed.
