"We went to Sambalpur in the third week of April by train to work at a bridge construction site. Some residents came to the site and asked us which state we were from. Learning that we were from Bengal, they turned hostile and started abusing us. Some of them manhandled us...We were frightened and fled to our temporary quarters. Then, those people came to our quarters at night and attacked us again."
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A migrant worker describing an incident of anti-Bengali hostility in Odisha. Reported in The Telegraph, "Attacked in Odisha for being 'Bengali'; our religion wasn't asked, but provincial identity invoked fury: Migrant workers", 2 May 2025.
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