Trinamool claims Delhi Police called Bengali a Bangladeshi language, BJP retorts

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday questioned the Delhi Police for referring to Bengali as “Bangladeshi language” in a purported letter to the Banga Bhawan in the national capital.

“This insults all Bengali-speaking people of India,” the Trinamool Congress chief said on X. “They cannot use this kind of language which degrades and debases us all.”

Banerjee was referring to a letter purportedly written by the station house officer of the Lodhi Colony police station to the Banga Bhawan, in which the officer asked for identification documents to be translated from Bengali to Hindi and English.