A heated verbal altercation unfolded on a Kolkata Metro train when a non-Bengali-speaking woman confronted fellow passengers for speaking in Bengali. In a video that quickly went viral, the woman argued that since West Bengal is part of India,

Again a Hindian attack on a Bengali. This Hindian lady racially abusing her as ‘Bangladeshi’. The same propaganda that living in India you have to speak in Hindi or get branded as ‘anti-national’. It’s time one should make a law against Hindi imposition in non-Hindi states. pic.twitter.com/MCCUekuOfP

"You are not in Bangladesh, you are in India. West Bengal is a part of India, you must be learning Hindi. You can speak in Bengali but not in Hindi despite living in India?" a non-Bengali woman said to a fellow metro passenger in Kolkata.

I live in West Bengal, in my hometown, not yours. You can't be in my state and insult me for speaking in Bengali,' the other woman retorted, but the argument soon escalated with more passengers taking offense to being called Bangladeshi for speaking in Bengali.

A viral video on social media shows a woman arguing with some Kolkata Metro travellers over the latter's conversation in Bengali. West Bengal is a part of India, and people must be learning Hindi, she says.

The altercation escalated when a Bengali woman, along with another individual nearby, challenged the Hindi-speaking woman, resulting in a heated exchange.