“‘No one else will speak up for us’: Bengali Hindu Refugees in UP’s Pilibhit see Modi as their Protector — Ground Report”, Swarajyamag, April 5, 2024:
“In the Terai region of Uttar Pradesh, there is a cluster of 23 villages some twenty-odd kilometres away from Pilibhit — all populated by Bengali refugees.
Nearly 40,000 Bengalis are believed to be living here, but the number is closer to one lakh if media reports are to be considered true.
Many of them, to date, live without legal sanction, with their family members who crossed over from East Pakistan (and later Bangladesh) beginning from 1958 — up to the 1970s when the floods hit the region. Thousands of them have also fled because of one reason — religious persecution of the Hindu minority by Islamists…..”
Read the full article at Swarajyamag.com
