Mamata Banerjee shared a letter written by the Lodhi Colony Police Station and was addressed to the Banga Bhawan in Delhi with the subject line reading “Translation of documents containing text written in Bangladeshi language-regarding”.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), on Sunday went ballistic against the Delhi Police for allegedly addressing Bangla as a “Bangladeshi” language. She also accused the Centre of using “anti-Constitutional language to insult and humiliate Bengali- speaking people”.
The Trinamool chief shared a letter purportedly written by the Lodhi Colony Police Station and was addressed to the Banga Bhawan in Delhi with the subject line reading “Translation of documents containing text written in Bangladeshi language-regarding”.
The purported letter was written by the police to apprise the Banga Bhawan about the arrest of eight suspected Bangladeshi nationals illegally living in India without any valid documents.
India Today TV could not verify the authenticity of the purported letter. The Delhi Police is yet to comment on the allegations.
“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 National Song (the latter by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay) are written, the language in which crores of Indians speak and write, the language which is sanctified and recognised by the Constitution of India, is now described as a Bangladeshi language!!” the West Bengal Chief Minister sent out a scathing tweet.
Calling the Delhi Police’s alleged reference “scandalous, insulting, anti- national, unconstitutional”, the Trinamool Congress Supremo added, “This insults all Bengali-speaking people of India. They cannot use this kind of language which degrades and debases us all. We urge immediate strongest possible protests from all against the anti-Bengali Government of India who are using such anti-Constitutional language to insult and humiliate the Bengali- speaking people of India”.
