The Chief Minister announced, “All the 22.40 workers who are outside of Bengal will get the benefits of ‘Sramasree’. If they register on the ‘Sramasree’ portal, they will be given an I-card. As a result, they will get the facilities of the state government.”She said that in the last few days, 2,700 families returned to Bengal after being ‘tortured’ in other states. The state government has also brought more than 10,000 people, she informed.Without naming the BJP, she alleged that in various states ruled by ‘double engine government’, an attack has been made on the Bengali language and Bengali identity.“If someone speaks Bengali, he is being labeled as a criminal. Someone is being ‘pushed’ to Bangladesh, somewhere he is being put in jail. Somewhere he is being taken to the police station and harassed,” Banerjee complained, while claiming that about 22 lakh migrant workers from West Bengal have been harassed for speaking Bengali in other states.She also noted that about 1.5 crore people from other states work in West Bengal.
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