‘Linguistic terror’: Mamata Banerjee alleges Bengali migrant’s family beaten up by Delhi Police

Reiterating her accusation that the Bharatiya Janata Party has unleashed “linguistic terrorism” against Bengali speakers, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that a Bengali migrant worker’s family was harassed and tortured by the police in Delhi.

The chief minister shared a video on social media in which a man can be heard accusing the Delhi Police of beating his wife and infant son.

“Atrocious!! Terrible!! See how Delhi Police brutally beat up a kid and his mother, members of a migrant family from Malda’s Chanchal,” Banerjee wrote. “Even a child is not spared from the cruelty of violence in the regime of linguistic terror unleashed by the BJP in the country against the Bengalis!”

It is unclear when the purported video was recorded.

Banerjee’s statement came on the day that the Trinamool Congress launched the “Bhasha Andolan”, a campaign against the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking persons in BJP-ruled states.

The Trinamool Congress chief had announced the protest on July 21 at the party’s annual Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata, saying that the fight to protect the Bengali language and identity would continue until the BJP was voted out.

Assembly elections in West Bengal are expected to take place in March or April 2026.

Her remarks also come amid Indian authorities pursuing a policy over the past month...

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