Guwahati : Assam Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker and BJP leader Numal Momin has lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, calling her a “half-Hindu” after she alleged that the BJP government in Assam was persecuting Bengali-speaking citizens for asserting their linguistic identity.

Momin said, “Mamata Banerjee is giving a statement that is very much condemnable, and not a single Assamese person will support this statement. She wanted the coexistence of Bangladeshi infiltrators… That is not acceptable at any cost. She is a half-Hindu, which is why she is making such statements against Hindus. What did she want to prove…? She wanted to make Bengal, Assam, and the Northeast into an Islamic state.”

He further accused her of ignoring the condition of Hindus in West Bengal and urged her to focus on her own state instead of commenting on Assam.

“She never had sympathy for Hindus. In West Bengal, the Hindus are suffering a lot. Instead of commenting on Assam’s internal matter, she should concentrate on West Bengal…,” he said.

Earlier, Mamata Banerjee had stated X, saying, “The second most spoken language in the country, Bangla, is also the second most spoken language of Assam. To threaten citizens who want to coexist peacefully, respecting all languages and religions, with persecution for upholding their own mother tongue is discriminatory and unconstitutional. This divisive agenda of the BJP in Assam has crossed all limits, and people of Assam will fight back.”

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