Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has pledged to battle “untill final drop of blood” for the folks’s “rights” after one other man ended his life, fearing deportation following the Election Fee’s announcement of the particular intensive revision (SIR) of the voters’ checklist within the Meeting poll-bound state.
The most recent sufferer, Khitish Majumder (95), was from Korapara village at Kotwali in West Midnapore. He was staying at his daughter’s home at Schoolbagan Subhaspally in Ilambazar of Birbhum over the past 5 months. On Thursday morning, Majumder was hanging lifeless in a room there.
His member of the family, Nirmala Majumder, stated, “He was fearful for the final couple of days fearing his deportation throughout the border as his identify was not within the 2002 SIR checklist.” Superintendent of Police (Birbhum) Amandeep stated, “The reason for suicide that got here to gentle was worry within the deceased about SIR.”
Within the afternoon, Ms Banerjee posted on X-handle, “We’re witnessing the tragic penalties of the BJP’s politics of worry, division and hate. Inside 72 hours of the Election Fee’s announcement of the SIR train in Bengal – An train bulldozed by on the BJP’s behest. One avoidable tragedy after one other has occurred.”
She then noticed, “On October 27, 57-year-old Pradeep Kar of Panihati, Khardaha died by suicide, leaving a word that learn, “NRC is answerable for my dying.” On October 28, a 63-year-old man from Dinhata, Cooch Behar tried to take his life, frightened of harassment below the SIR course of. And at the moment, 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 may be dispossessed of their land.”
The CM puzzled, “Who will reply for these avoidable, politically inflicted tragedies? Will the House 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 might be a deeper wound on the nation’s conscience? This isn’t simply tragedy- It’s betrayal of humanity itself.”
She identified, “For generations, the folks of Bengal have lived with dignity. Right now they’re being pressured to ask whether or not they nonetheless belong to the land of their beginning. This cruelty is unconscionable and should not be allowed to face. I enchantment to each citizen: Don’t be provoked, don’t lose religion,l and don’t take any excessive step. Our Maa-Mati-Manush Sarkar stands with you.”
The Trinamul Congress supremo claimed, “We won’t enable the NRC to be carried out in Bengal – neither by the entrance door, nor by the again door. We won’t allow a single legit citizen to be branded an “outsider.” Till the final drop of our blood, we are going to battle to guard the rights of the folks and to defeat the BJP and their allies’ nefarious agenda to tear aside the social cloth of our nation.”
Countering the CM, BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya nevertheless alleged, “Mamata Banerjee’s blatant lies over the tragic suicide of 57-year-old Pradeep Kar of Panihati have already been uncovered, as she shamelessly tried to hyperlink his dying with the NRC. Now, she has outdone herself by stooping to an abysmal new low! This time, she is politicising the dying of 95-year-old Khitish Majumdar by falsely connecting it with fears of SIR and NRC.”
He claimed, “It’s flabbergasting how arrogantly she assumes that the folks of Bengal are gullible sufficient to purchase her lies…If Mamata Banerjee insists on weaving tales to gas worry and stall SIR, she ought to at the least make them logical. Her present script is nothing however a determined, hole hoax—written for electoral dividends and geared toward insulting the intelligence of Bengal and the very soul of democracy itself.”
