West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child, who were allegedly assaulted in Delhi, were also “threatened”.
Her comment comes after the Delhi police had called a video, shared by Banerjee on social media, alleging that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were assaulted in the national capital for speaking their language, “fabricated” and “politically motivated”.
“They (the woman and her child) were taken to various police stations, just as I had predicted yesterday. They were threatened. We want them to come back, and whoever is speaking the truth and who is lying will be proved eventually,” she said.
Banerjee said that Bengali-speaking migrant workers in BJP-ruled states should come back to Bengal if they are subjected to harassment.
Delhi’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Abhishek Dhania on Monday said that the police took immediate cognisance of the video shared on the platform ‘X’ by the West Bengal CM, where she claimed that the woman and her child were brutally assaulted by the Delhi cops.
“During sustained questioning, the woman admitted that her relative, a political worker from Malda district in West Bengal, had asked her to make the video. The video was then circulated locally in Bengal and later surfaced on social media,” the officer said.
Reiterating her appeal to the migrant workers from Bengal to come back to the state, the West Bengal chief minister said that all welfare facilities would be extended to them, including healthcare and education for their children.
Banerjee questioned whether central commissions on human rights, women and tribal welfare are sent to Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states when people face atrocities there.
“When Bengali-speaking people face atrocities, or are killed, or thrown out of their residences and water and electricity connections are snapped, how many commissions go?” she asked.
