Reports Allege Union Minister Nisith Pramanik’s Is A Bangladeshi, Cong MP Asks PM For Probe

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha member and Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Ripun Bora wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday alleging that the newly appointed Union Minister Nisith Pramanik is a Bangladeshi national.

In the letter, he urged the Centre to launch a probe and find out where Pramanik was born.

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However, sources close to Pramanik strongly refuted the allegations, saying the minister was born, brought up, and educated in India.

In his letter, which was also posted on his Twitter handle, Bora claimed that some media outlets have shown that Pramanik is a Bangladeshi national.

According to the news channels, Bora claimed, Pramanik showed his address as Cooch Behar in election papers “by manipulation”.

The channels also highlighted the “jubilant scenario”, including a statement of “his elder brother” and some villagers of his native village in Bangladesh expressing their satisfaction on Pramanik being appointed as union minister of state for home.

“If it is so, this is a very serious matter for the country, that a foreign national is appointed as a union minister.

“Therefore, I urge upon you to conduct an inquiry about the actual birthplace and nationality of Nisith Pramanik in a most transparent way and clarify the whole issue as it creates confusion across the country,” Bora said in his letter to Modi.

Pramanik was born in Bangladesh: Bora

Quoting the reports, the MP claimed that the union minister’s birthplace was Harinathpur under Palasbari police station in Gaibandha district of Bangladesh and he reportedly came to West Bengal for computer studies.

Bora mentions in his letter, ” The reports in news channels namely Barak Bangla and Republic TV Tripura and digital media, India Today and Business Standard, showed that Pramanik was a Bangladeshi national.”

After getting a computer degree, he first joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and later the BJP and was elected as an MP from Cooch Behar, Bora claimed.