Garbage Dumped Everywhere, Domestic Workers Fleeing: What Is Happening In Gurugram?
'Speaking Bengal is being treated as a crime. I don't think speaking any other language is a crime. If we don't object to other languages, why are you torturing people who speak our language? The nation will collapse if this continues," she said.
Earlier last week, Banerjee had led a protest march from Kolkata's College Street to Esplanade against the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants in BJP-ruled states and threatened a 'second Bhasha Andolan" (language movement).
No Clarity
The Haryana government or Gurugram Police are yet to issue clarity on what the verification process is about and how many people have been detained.
Meanwhile, with no clarity on the issue, fear is driving workers away from Gurugram as they are scared of consequences. 'We don't know why this is happening. Yesterday, some policemen came to our house too asking for our IDs and also checked our phones. While they left when we showed them our Aadhaar and phones, some of our neighbours were detained on not being able to produce valid ID proofs," said one of the domestic workers, working in a Sector 70 society, adding that they could not figure why some people were being detained and others were let off.
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