Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Friday alleged that there is a pattern in attacks on Bengali-speaking people in other states, particularly those ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Banerjee visited Purulia district and met the family members of Sukhen Mahato, a migrant worker from the district who was recently murdered in Pune, Maharashtra.While the Trinamool Congress has claimed that Mahato was targeted because he…
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Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Thursday rejected the Pune Police’s claim that a migrant worker from West Bengal was killed in a drunken altercation, even as party national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee is scheduled to visit the deceased’s residence in Purulia on Friday.Pune Police issued a statement earlier in the day regarding the death of Sukhen Mahato, a migrant worker from Purulia district, stating that he was allegedly under the influence of alcohol at the time of th…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday condemned the death of a migrant worker from West Bengal in Maharashtra’s Pune and slammed the ‘weaponisation of xenophobia’ to target innocent lives.Using her X handle, CM Banerjee shared a video of the incident and expressed her anger at the rising hate crimes in the country.”I am shaken, enraged, and sickened beyond words by the barbaric murder of Sukhen Mahato, a 24-year-old migrant worker from Bandwan in Purulia, the sole ear…