Let migrants come back, we’ll know who is lying: CM after ‘fake clip’ claim
Times of India | 30 July 2025
Kolkata/Bolpur: A Bengali-speaking woman and her child, who were allegedly assaulted in Delhi, had been threatened, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday.
The CM had earlier shared a video on social media, alleging that the woman and her child were assaulted in the national capital for speaking their language.
"The migrant workers are being held in detention camps and moved from one police station to another. Just yesterday (Monday), I mentioned the child's situation. I said they were being transferred from one station to another and are likely to be threatened. That's exactly what happened. Now, we want them to return. It will soon be clear who is telling the truth and who is lying," said Banerjee at Birbhum's Illambazar, while attending a govt programme.
A day earlier, the CM had said at the ‘Bhasha Andolan' rally in Bolpur: "I received news that in Delhi, people from a Bengali colony have been asked to leave within a month. I shared a post on social media about how a child was assaulted. The police are taking them from one police station to another so that they can be shown as ‘missing'. Then they will say we are sharing fake information. We do not need to fake anything.
"Delhi Police, however, called the video shared by Banerjee on social media "fabricated" and "politically motivated". Delhi's deputy commissioner of police (East Delhi) Abhishek Dhania said: "During sustained questioning, the woman admitted that her relative, a political worker from Malda, asked her to make the video. The video was then circulated locally in Bengal and later surfaced on social media.
"After Bengal BJP raised the issue, Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh told reporters: "We will not heed the opinion of experts in fake posts. They are extremely adept at posting videos and images of incidents taking place even outside India to smear Bengal. In this case, the post made by the CM was based on specific input. It has come to our notice that police are under tremendous pressure in BJP-governed states to manipulate facts relating to the illegal detention and harassment of Bengali-speaking people. It needs to be unearthed whether this (the Delhi Police statement) is part of that script.
"Ghosh also questioned BJP MP Soumendu Adhikari's police complaint against the post, "He, and his party, never stood by people when they were harassed and detained. They never helped them. But now he is trying to prove a political point to his party," he said.