TMC MP says 20 migrant workers, beaten up as Bangladeshis in Odisha, rescued | Latest News India

Kolkata: At the very least 20 migrant staff from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, who had been branded as Bangladeshis and allegedly crushed up in Odisha earlier this month, had been rescued and introduced again to the state, officers conscious of the event stated on Thursday.

“On March 19, every week after CAA [Citizenship (Amendment) Act] guidelines had been notified, round 20 migrant staff from Murshidabad, had been attacked by a gaggle of individuals at Bhadrak in Odisha. The employees had been tied up, branded as Bangladeshis and crushed up,” Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Samirul Islam instructed reporters in Berhampore on Thursday.

The central authorities earlier this month notified the principles for the Citizenship (Modification) Act, 2019, paving the way in which for the implementation of the legislation.

Islam stated that the migrant staff had been all from the minority group and spoke in Bengali. A few of them have been working within the neighbouring state since 1999, he stated

“A number of the victims managed to ship us a video message addressing West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee with a plea to rescue them. The chief minister took speedy motion. The Odisha authorities was knowledgeable and the victims had been rescued inside two hours,” stated Islam, who can be the chairman of the Migrant Employee’s Welfare Board.

In response to the 2011 census, West Bengal was the fourth largest supply of migrant staff within the nation after Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan. Round 580,000 folks migrated from Bengal between 2001 and 2011.

Over 2.1 million migrant staff from West Bengal have utilized for enrolment within the Karmasathi Parijayee Shramik portal, a authorities database that maintains information of migrant staff from the state.

CM Banerjee constituted the West Bengal Migrant Staff’ Welfare Board — a first-of-its-kind initiative within the nation — in March.

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien has additionally written a letter to Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik in search of an appointment over the incident. Within the letter, O’Brien stated that three celebration MPs and 5 representatives of the migrant staff would wish to share the main points of their ordeal.

“That is the primary time we confronted such harassment. I used to be hit with a cricket bat. I’m not positive who the attackers had been. They alleged that we had been Bangladeshis. They claimed that our EPIC and Aadhaar playing cards had been faux,” stated Md Saifuddin Mollah, one of many victims and a resident of Samserganj in Murshidabad.