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In separate incidents, two Muslim migrant workers from West Bengal were discovered dead in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in recent days, and their families lament that both were a result of growing violence against Bengali-speaking workers in India.
When 32-year-old Manjur Alam Laskar from South 24-Parganas in West Bengal was allegedly beaten to death by Hindutva activists in Andhra Pradesh’s Komarolu village in Prakasam district. In Tamil Nadu’s Chennai, the dead body of 29-year-old Alamgir Mondal, from West Bengal’s Harishchandrapur in Malda district, was found on railway tracks.
The Telegraph reported that Alam Lashkar’s family received a call demanding Rs 25,000, and the caller threatened that if the money is not paid, he would be killed.
Scared, the family transferred Rs 6,000, but the next day the caller informed them that Alam was dead, according to a Times of India report.
According to Alam’s family members, he was targeted for being Bengali-Muslim, and he was attacked and killed under the suspicion of being a Bangladeshi national.
In the case of Alamgir Mondal, he had left home for Chennai a month ago for work, and eight days ago, he reportedly secured a job in Hyderabad. He last spoke to his wife on January 14 before boarding a train, after which he went missing, and his body was recovered from the railway track on Wednesday.
Maktoob Media reminds that at least five people, including four Muslims and a Dalit, were killed in a mob attack. The assailants killed them for being ‘Bangladeshis’ and ‘illegal immigrants’.
According to Maktoob Media, violence against migrants spiked since May 2025, against the backdrop of the Indian government’s ongoing xenophobic campaign against Bengali-speaking Muslims.