By Admin 
Assembly elections are going to be held in West Bengal next year, for which BJP is busy preparing. Meanwhile, prominent West Bengal Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhary met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Tuesday (30 December 2025). At present, Congress is busy finding its ground in West Bengal, while Adhir Ranjan Choudhary is also feeling isolated within the party.
What issues did the Congress leaders discuss after meeting the PM?
Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhary raised with him the issue of attacks on Bengali speaking people in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled states and the problems of the Matua community. Chaudhary, former president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, urged the Prime Minister to intervene to help stop such attacks. He said that there is a possibility of communal tension and violence in the state.
After meeting PM Modi, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhary said that he raised the issue of Bengali laborers working in different states and also talked about the problems faced by the Matua community. When asked about the Prime Minister’s response, he said, ‘PM Modi assured that he is monitoring the situation and this should not happen.’
Is there any political reason for Congress leader meeting PM?
When asked about the political significance of this meeting, which is taking place a few months before the West Bengal Assembly elections, he said, ‘It has no political significance. I came to Delhi a few days ago. By chance I got a chance to meet him. Choudhary, who was the leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha, also submitted a letter to PM Modi, in which he claimed that in some parts of the country, Bengali speaking people are being treated like infiltrators.
The Congress leader said, ‘Their only crime is that they speak Bengali language, due to which the concerned administration often mistakes them for people from neighboring Bangladesh and treats them as infiltrators.’ He said that many parts of West Bengal have a majority Muslim population and the state shares its border with Bangladesh and due to such attacks in other parts of the country, communal tension is increasing among the communities in these areas.
Sources close to the Congress leader said that he raised the issue of alleged targeting of Bengali speaking people in BJP ruled states. The Congress leader urged the Prime Minister to sensitize all state governments against discrimination, violence and harassment of migrant laborers from other parts of the country.
The issue of killing of workers for speaking Bengali
Jewel Rana, a 30-year-old migrant laborer from Murshidabad district of West Bengal, was murdered after a dispute over beedis in Sambalpur, Odisha. In Mumbai too, two migrant laborers were arrested on suspicion of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The West Bengal Migrant Welfare Board has said it has received 1,143 complaints related to harassment in 10 months, especially in BJP-ruled states.
Adhir Ranjan Choudhary had earlier accused both the ruling Trinamool Congress of West Bengal and the main opposition BJP of using the Matua community in West Bengal as a vote bank, while no one is providing any help to the community which is facing uncertainty over SIR.
The Matuas are a Dalit Hindu refugee community who migrated from Bangladesh decades ago due to religious persecution and have a sizeable population in North 24 Parganas, Nadia and parts of South 24 Parganas. The Congress leader had said, ‘A conspiracy is going on to remove the names of most of the Matua community members from the voter list.’