Mahua Moitra alleges discrimination against Muslim bureaucrats

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has written to the National Commission of Minorities alleging discrimination against Muslim IAS and IPS officers in West Bengal. The senior Lok Sabha MP has also stated that Muslim bureaucrats are kept out of events involving Union Home Minister Amit Shah and that the discrimination is based on religion.

“On three separate dates, across two official visits and in two cities, three senior officers were asked to leave, or told not to attend, events at which their presence was integral to the business being transacted, while their counterparts of other faiths took part as usual. The one factor these three officers share, and the one factor that sets them apart from the colleagues who were permitted to remain, is their religion,” Ms. Moitra’s letter sent on Thursday (September 17, 2026) stated.