NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury at his residence in Delhi and raised the problem of assaults on Bengali-speaking folks, particularly in BJP-ruled states.Chowdhury, a former West Bengal Congress chief, urged the Prime Minister’s intervention to assist cease such assaults.He claimed that such incidents may flare up communal rigidity within the state.“Their solely offense is that they converse the Bengali language, which is commonly misunderstood by the involved administration as that means they belong to neighboring Bangladesh and are handled as infiltrators,” Chowdhury mentioned in a letter to PM Modi.“It’s ironic to notice that administrative officers, together with the police, don’t differentiate between ‘Banglabhasi’ and ‘Bangladeshi’ folks. With out committing any offence, they’re lodged in jail or detention centres, leading to grave injustice,” he added.The assembly comes as West Bengal gears up for the Meeting elections scheduled for Might 2026.Chowdhury, nevertheless, performed down the go to, claiming it was “not political”.In the meantime, Union Minister Amit Shahwho’s on a three-day go to to West Bengal, is scheduled to carry back-to-back closed-door conferences with the BJP‘s MLAs and MPs, in addition to representatives in numerous civic our bodies.He’s additionally anticipated to satisfy the highest brass of the RSS within the state.After his arrival on Monday, Shah held a gathering on the BJP workplace in Salt Lake to take inventory of the get together’s organizational preparedness for the upcoming polls.