‘Scandalous’: Mamata Banerjee questions Delhi Police for calling Bengali ‘Bangladeshi language’

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday questioned the Delhi Police for referring to Bengali as “Bangladeshi language” in a purported letter to the Banga Bhawan in the national capital.

“This insults all Bengali-speaking people of India,” the Trinamool Congress chief said on X. “They cannot use this kind of language which degrades and debases us all.”

Banerjee was referring to a letter purportedly written by the station house officer of the Lodhi Colony police station to the Banga Bhawan, in which the officer asked for identification documents to be translated from Bengali to Hindi and English.

The letter was written in the context of a case in which eight persons suspected to be Bangladeshi citizens living without valid documents in India were arrested. “…For the investigation to proceed further, it is requested that an official translator/interpreter proficient in Bangladeshi national language may kindly be provided for the aforesaid purpose,” the letter said.

Banerjee said that the letter was “scandalous, insulting, anti-national, unconstitutional”.

See now how Delhi police under the direct control of Ministry of Home, Government of India is describing Bengali as " Bangladeshi" language!

Bengali, our mother tongue, the language of Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda, the language in which our National Anthem and the… pic.twitter.com/2ACUyehSx8— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) August 3,...

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