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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamta Banerjee has lashed out at the Delhi Police for referring to the Bengali language as ‘Bangladeshi national language’ in a purported letter, alleging that it was ‘insulting, anti-national and unconstitutional’.
AS reported by PTI, Party national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee, who also shared the letter on X, echoed his party chief’s sentiment and alleged that it was a calculated attempt by the BJP to ‘defame Bengal’.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s state president Samik Bhattacharya justified the Delhi Police’s action and said there is a difference in the dialect of the Bengali language spoken and written in West Bengal with that of Bangladesh.
The BJP also alleged that the TMC was trying to defend illegal Bangladeshi migrants who, the party said, speak a heavily Urdu-influenced Bengali dialect.
The letter, linked to an investigation of a case under the ‘Foreigners’ Act’, was written to the officer-in-charge of Banga Bhawan, the official guest house of the state government in the national capital.
‘See now how Delhi Police under the direct control of the Ministry of Home, Government of India, is describing Bengali as ‘Bangladeshi’ language!’ Banerjee posted on her Facebook account, sharing a copy of the letter.
