A woman from Murarai in the district of Birbhum West Bengal claimed that she and five of her family members were picked up from the Rohini area in Delhi and forcibly deported to Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/Istockphoto
A woman from Murarai in the district of Birbhum West Bengal claimed that she and five of her family members were picked up from the Rohini area in Delhi and forcibly deported to Bangladesh.
In his video report, which was shared on Saturday (July 19, 2025), the chairwoman of the Social Care Council for Migrants in West Bengals and Rajya Sabha Samirul Islam, the Sweets Bibi appealed to the main Minister Mamata Banataee to help her return to India.
“We were arrested in Delhi where we went to work. We showed our Aadhaar card and begged that we were not Bangladeshi, but the police threatened us. They said that Bangladesh would make us,” Mrs. Bibi hears in the video.
“She is a permanent resident of the Murarai Assembly constituency and her family has lived there for generations. But no, he doesn’t speak from her ancestors’ home. Now she’s in Bangladesh, where she and five others, including three minors, were deported by Delhi,” Islam said.
Referring to the remarks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Durgapur on Friday, when he spoke of “Bengal’s Assisy (Pride)”, which was primary to BJP, Rajya Sabha MP said, “@arendramodi, you came to Bengal and stepped out.
“What tragedy! Although they were Indian citizens, their only” crime “spoke Bengal in the Bjp-Landan Delhi, where they lived for years,” Mr. Islam said.
Sonali Khatun, who has been pregnant for eight months, is one of the group deported to Bangladesh. Mr. Islam said she went helplessly in Bangladesh.
There were reports that about half a dozen migrating workers from West Bengal were arrested in different parts of the country and pushed into Bangladesh and later repatriated to India. Along with the “Pushing”, there were reports of retention of migrants in different countries such as Odisha and Delhi, for suspicion of Bangladesh nationals. Among the detainees were members of the Matua community, which includes the Hindu Namasudras, who moved from Bangladesh.
Mr. Islam on Friday (July 18, 2025) shared a video of Nishikant Biswas, Ranaghat’s inhabitants in the Nadia district originating from the Matua community, saying that his sons Manishankar and Nayan in Maharashtra in the last six months where they traveled with work.
The detention of Matua members is significant because in 2019 the Citizenship Act (amendment) approved in 2024 granted citizenship to the persecuted non -Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who joined India 31 December 2014.
Published – July 19, 2025 20:38
