India, Aug. 4 -- Tipra Motha Party, an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura, on Monday reacted sharply to a widely-circulated Delhi Police letter referring to Bengali as "Bangladeshi language", contending that such actions allow space to extremist views and also give chance to people such as Bangladesh's interim government chief adviser Mohammad Yunus to tarnish India's image.

Party founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarma said he was against the imposition of any language on any community, but everybody should respect all languages. "Referring to Bengali as a "Bangladeshi language" by Delhi Police is deeply concerning. Today it is Bengali, tomorrow it can be any other language. There is no such thing called Bangladeshi language!"...