India, Jan. 6 -- "Except for Rajya Sabha MP Mamata Bala Thakur of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), no one from the party came to meet us when the Gurugram Police launched a verification drive targeting alleged illegal Bangladeshis and detained several Bangla-speaking migrant workers from West Bengal. Minakshi Mukherjee, a CPI(M)) leader, sent some people to meet us when we were in crisis. But no TMC leader came to meet us, despite the fact that we are solid voters of the TMC," said Bablu Sarkar, a West Bengal migrant worker in Gurugram, toTehelka.

"Around 400 Bangla-speaking migrant workers from West Bengal were kept at the detention centres in Gurugram. They were picked up from different areas of the city. Some were detained for two days, ...