India, July 24 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused BJP-ruled states of targeting Bengali-speaking workers from her state, alleging they are being harassed, detained, and even pushed into Bangladesh under the pretext of identity checks, which she called "linguistic terror".

The TMC supremo, in a post on X, targeted the governments of Haryana and Rajasthan, accusing them of inflicting "tortures and tortures (sic)" on Bengali-speaking citizens.

She also questioned the motive behind what she called a deliberate campaign of persecution.

"Have been increasingly receiving reports of detentions and atrocities on our Bengali-speaking people from different districts of West Bengal in Gurgaon, Haryana. West Bengal po...