India, Dec. 30 -- Former Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and raised the issue of alleged discrimination and violence against Bengali-speaking migrant workers in several parts of India.

Chowdhury urged the PM to "sensitise all the governments in the country" to prevent such incidents, pointing out that a majority of such violent incidents are happening in BJP-ruled states.

"A harrowing incident took place in Odisha's Sambalpur where a youth, Juyel Sk, of my district Murshidabad was bludgeoned to death on allegations of being a Bangladeshi infiltrator," Chowdhury wrote in a letter to the PM.

He was referring to the incident from December 24 when three migrant workers from West Bengal's Mursh...