‘Gurugram cops harassing workers for speaking Bengali'
Trinamool Congress
spokesperson Partha Pratim Ray, who hails from Cooch Behar, said on Thursday that several people from Sitalkuchi, working in Gurugram, were being summoned by local police for speaking in Bengali.
Ray said, "For a long time, several people from the Sitalkuchi block of Cooch Behar district have been working as labourers in Gurugram, near Delhi. They are being summoned to the police station on suspicion of being Bangladeshi because they are from Bengal. Police are not accepting their voter and Aadhaar cards, terming them fake. They have been ordered to bring their ration card or old land documents from home. They are all worried.
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"I know many of them personally; some are Rajbanshi, while others are indigenous Muslim Nashya Sheikhs. I will approach the authorities with all the information. If necessary, I will speak with the party's higher-ups and go to Gurugram to assist them."
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