Family alleges NRC worry behind aged mans loss of life in Kolkata

A 63-year-old man died in Kolkata on Sunday (August 3, 2025) morning, together with his household claiming that he had been residing in worry that he could be despatched to Bangladesh if the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was carried out.

Dilip Kumar Saha, a non-teaching workers member at a personal faculty in Dhakuria, south Kolkata, had arrived in Kolkata in 1972 from Nawabganj, Dhaka, and had been residing in Anandapally, Regent Park space. The spouse of Saha mentioned that he used to look at tv information and was involved about implementation of NRC within the State.

“He has been underneath extreme stress for fairly a while relating to this…. He was afraid that he could be despatched to a detention camp after which pushed again to Bangladesh, the place he had no person. He had a legitimate voter ID card and different paperwork,” Aarti Saha, spouse of the deceased mentioned.

There was concern concerning the implementation of the NRC in West Bengal earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, and a way of panic unfold among the many individuals within the State, notably when leaders of the BJP acknowledged that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act could be adopted by the NRC. West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee had in September 2019 mentioned that six individuals had died as a result of NRC-related worry in West Bengal. On March 11, 2024, the Union Home Ministry notified CAA guidelines, however the BJP dropped NRC from its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

West Bengal Power Minister and native Trinamool Congress MLA Arup Biswas reached out of the members of the family of the deceased, mentioned. “This is what the worry of being thrown in a foreign country may do to a person. What they (Centre) have began within the title of the SIR reveals their anti-people perspective, and the result’s in entrance of you,” Mr. Biswas mentioned.

West Bengal’s ruling social gathering raised the difficulty and mentioned that the loss of life was the BJP’s orchestrated marketing campaign of worry and intimidation.

“Despite possessing legitimate documentation, Bengali-speaking residents are being served NRC notices. Migrant staff are being arbitrarily labelled as foreigners,” the social gathering posted on social media.