Poonam Sharma
TMC’s Panic Over Bangladeshis Returning Home: What Is Mamata Banerjee Trying to Conceal?
The larger question which fills Bengal’s political space now is simple: why is the TMC so restless if migrants are returning on their own? Why is the ruling party treating the documentation and identification of illegal entrants as an “attack” rather than a necessary national security exercise?
Returning Bangladeshis: The Numbers That Shook TMC
For decades, Bangladeshis coming illegally into the country have been the invisible backbone of Bengal’s vote-bank politics. The recent figures, clearly showing large groups of undocumented Bangladeshis crossing back every single day, have shaken this ecosystem.
Several migrants stopped at the border admitting on camera:
They had their Aadhaar and voter cards. They had voted in the previous elections. They were now returning because “the policy is changing” and “checking has become strict”
These revelations bring out fundamental questions which TMC has no answers for:
Who issued these documents? Who facilitated their entry? Who took money? And who allowed them to vote?
Supreme Court Angle: A Trigger Point of Controversy
The return wave intensified after certain court observations that Aadhaar could not be the sole proof of citizenship. Migrants openly stated: “We have Aadhaar, we have voter cards, we have voted. But now we are being caught.”
This has sparked political uproar. Critics say judicial leniency on documentation created loopholes exploited by infiltrators. A number of commentators blatantly stated that Supreme Court’s stance indirectly encouraged this demographic manipulation, knowingly or unknowingly.
TMC’s Denial Mode: “Everything Is Planted by BJP”
Confronted with visuals from border villages—migrants pleading with BSF to “let them go back to Bangladesh”—TMC offered its predictable response:
“These are BJP plants.”
But footage reveals another story.
Migrants present genuine documents.
They narrate how they lived in New Town, near the Kolkata airport, or in illegal clusters.
They admitted to paying ₹10,000–12,000 in order to obtain Aadhaar, ration, or voter ID.
If these were “planted actors,” how did they obtain official documents and vote multiple times?
It’s the very ecosystem the ruling party wants buried.
The Vote-Bank Equation: Why TMC Is Terrified
The political foundation of Bengal for decades—first under the Left, and later under TMC—has depended upon a selectively nurtured illegal demography, particularly from Bangladesh.
This population:
Settled in border districts, slums, and peri-urban zones Was granted documents through middlemen
Voting en bloc Became the unspoken political leverage of the ruling party.Now, with migrants returning in thousands, the vote-bank arithmetic is collapsing—and Mamata Banerjee knows it. The Security Time-Bomb: What If Verification Is Blocked?
If illegal population remains undocumented:
Terror networks-language those nurtured by Pakistan-based handlers-exploit the gaps.
Sleeper cells easily melt into the society.
Bombings or local attacks become more difficult to trace.
Fake IDs Let Criminals Vanish into Cities
Security experts say that even a small percentage of migrants being radicalised can destabilise urban India. Already, agencies have marked Rohingya clusters in many states as high-risk zones.
The Moral Question: Who is the real victim?
TMC paints the entire exercise as “anti-Muslim” or “anti-poor.”
Safety is compromised
Documents become devalued.
Welfare benefits are diverted.
It dilutes political rights.
What can always be granted are genuine refugees or economic migrants:
Work permissions
Temporary stay
Legal monitoring
But illegal citizenship, voting, and uncontrolled movement can never be justified in any democracy.
The scenes coming from Bengal are not a “state issue” anymore. They represent a national moment of reckoning.
If the government and institutions act decisively, India may see its first big correction of demographic manipulation in decades.
Radicalization
Conflicts
Infiltration terror
Permanent demographic imbalance The choice is stark and historic. Conclusion As migrants return, the border tightens, and documentation does too; Bengal stands at a juncture. It has ceased being only a political issue of a state and has now become a national security question that India can no longer ignore.
