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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks to a gathering in the course of the ‘Chhath Puja’ celebrations, at a ghat in Kolkata | Photo Credit: PTI
“We are witnessing the tragic penalties of the BJP’s politics of worry, division and hate. Within 72 hours of the Election Commission’s announcement of the SIR train in Bengal — An train bulldozed via on the BJP’s behest. One avoidable tragedy after one other has occurred,” Ms. Banerjee posted on social media.
The Trinamool Congress chairperson who had earlier highlighted the dying of 57-year-old Pradip Kar, who in keeping with her had left a notice that learn, “NRC is chargeable for my dying”, added on Thursday that 95-year-old Khitish Majumder from Kotwali, Paschim Medinipur dwelling along with his daughter in Ilambazar, Birbhum ended his life, “gripped by the worry that he and his household is likely to be dispossessed of their land”.
Ms. Banerjee stated such incidents weren’t simply tragedy however “betrayal of humanity itself”.
“Who will reply for these avoidable, politically inflicted tragedies? Will the Home Minister settle for duty? Will the BJP and its allies, below whose watch this worry psychosis has unfold, discover the braveness to talk out? A 95-year-old man, who has given his life to this soil, pressured to die to show he belongs to it. What may very well be a deeper wound on the nation’s conscience?” she requested.
The Chief Minister, who had dubbed the SIR as National Register of Citizens (NRC) via again door, reiterated that her authorities “is not going to enable NRC to be applied in Bengal — neither via the entrance door, nor via the again door”. “Our Maa-Mati-Manush Sarkar stands with you….We is not going to allow a single official citizen to be branded an ‘outsider’,” she stated.
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress on Thursday raised allegations of 2002 voter checklist, on the premise of which SIR is being carried out, has been manipulated. Trinamool Congress chief Kunal Ghosh cited reference of polling cubicles in Cooch Behar Natabari Assembly seat and Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas, the place there are discrepancies within the 2002 voter checklist, which has been uploaded and which has been in public area.
The Trinamool Congress management additionally held a protest at Panihati, the locality the place Pradip Kumar Kar used to reside. Trinamool Congress chief Abhishek Banerjee had on Wednesday visited the residence of the deceased and known as for protest below the banner of “Justice for Pradeep Kar”. “Justice for Pradeep Kar isn’t just a requirement, it’s a promise: that Bengal will stand united, fearless, and decided towards any power that seeks to divide and intimidate,” the Trinamool Congress stated on social media.
Meanwhile, questions have been raised on the veracity of the suicide notice of Padeep Kar, with a piece of neighbours of the deceased saying that he didn’t don’t have any two fingers in his proper hand. The members of the family of Pradip Kumar Kar filed a police criticism over the dying on the native police station.
Bharatiya Janata Party chief Suvendu Adhikari stated that every one these allegations of suicide had been false. “ If anybody is struck by lightning or falls off a tree, they’re going to blame the SIR. The train is being carried in 12 States, whys is the Chief Minister and her nephew solely feeling the warmth,” Mr. Adhikari stated.
BJP chief Amit Malviya in a social media publish stated “if Mamata Banerjee insists on weaving tales to gasoline worry and stall SIR, she ought to at the least make them logical”. “Why would a 95-year-old man, born in 1930 and an Indian by delivery, take his personal life over SIR? Even if, by any logic, he was not an Indian citizen post-Partition and later migrated to India, he was routinely eligible for Indian citizenship below the CAA, being a Hindu,” the BJP IT head stated.
Published – October 31, 2025 05:00 am IST
