Detained by Gurugram Police, Two Families of Migrant Workers Seek Help of Village Heads in West Bengal

Detained by Gurugram Police, two families of migrant workers seek help of village heads in West Bengal

Seven Bengali-speaking workers were picked up between July 18 and 20 on suspicion of being Bangladeshis living illegally in India

Land, Electricity, 'Anti-Bengali Bias': The Many Crises at Delhi's Jai Hind Camp

As dusk falls, the cries of newborn twins—a girl and a boy, yet to be named and less than a week old—ring out in the squalid, muddy gully that leads to 20-year-old Ashiya Bibi's house in Jai Hind Camp, a cluster of about 3,000 jhuggi-jhopdis or slums in South Delhi's Masoodpur area.Inside the house, an emaciated Ashiya, just back from the local government hospital, fans the two babies in the dark, swatting away mosquitoes from above their freshl…

Crackdown on Bengali Migrants and the Pushback from Courts, Bengal Govt and Civil Society - Clarion India

Detained without orders. Deported without trials. As state crackdowns intensify, India’s Bengali-speaking migrants find themselves stripped of rights, identity, and even citizenshipIn recent weeks, a chilling pattern has emerged across multiple Indian states, including Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, where Bengali-speaking migrant workers, most of them Indian citizens, have been rounded up in mass raids, detain…

Citizens' group condemn incidents targeting Bengali-speaking migrants

New Delhi, Jul 20 (PTI) A group of prominent citizens under the banner Bharatiya Bhasha Samooh on Sunday expressed concern over the recent incidents related to Bengali-speaking migrant labourers in various parts of the country. The group said it believed that linguistic attack is a "serious threat to the diversity of our country". "In the last one month, there have been reports from various parts of the country that Bengali-speaking migrant labo…