ADVERTISEMENTAddressing the issue, Banerjee strongly condemned what she described as “brutal oppression, harassment and violence” against Bengali-speaking people in “every BJP-ruled state”. In connection with the killing, the West Bengal Police have already “registered a zero FIR at Suti police station and arrested six accused”, Banerjee said. Referring specifically to the Sambalpur incident, Banerjee said migrant workers from the Jangipur region of Murshidabad district had faced severe atrocities in BJP-ruled Odisha. “It is deeply unfortunate that a young migrant worker from the Suti area of Jangipur in Murshidabad was again beaten to death in Sambalpur on December 24,” she said. The chief minister claimed that migrant workers from Muslim-majority Murshidabad were “now returning home in fear”.

Source: The Telegraph December 27, 2025 16:10 UTC