Mamata denounces BJP over rising suicide incidents from fear of SIR-NRC in Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that consecutive suicides and suicide attempts in the state out of the fear of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and possible National Register of Citizens (NRC) during the last few days are examples of tragic consequences of the BJP’s politics of fear, division and hate.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Mamata Banerjee in a social media post said, “Within 72 hours of the Election Commission’s announcement of the SIR exercise in Bengal — An exercise bulldozed through at the BJP’s behest. One avoidable tragedy after another has occurred. On October 27, 57-year-old Pradeep Kar of Panihati in Khardaha, died by suicide, leaving a note that read, “NRC is responsible for my death.” On October 28, a 63-year-old man from Dinhata in Cooch Behar, attempted to take his life, terrified of harassment under the SIR process. And today, 95-year-old Khitish Majumder from Kotwali in Paschim Medinipur, living with his daughter at Illambazar in Birbhum, ended his life, gripped by the fear that he and his family might be dispossessed of their land.”
Similarly, she said Khitish Majumdar, a resident of West Midnapore district, committed suicide at his relative’s place at Ilambazar area in Birbhum district yesterday, out of the fear of getting his name deleted from the voters’ list after the SIR and subsequently denied his Indian citizenship rights.
The Chief Minister also asked whether the Indian Home Minister Amit Shah would accept the responsibility for such tragedies. “Will the BJP and its allies, under whose watch this fear psychosis has spread, find the courage to speak out?” Chief Minister Banerjee asked.
According to the Chief Minister, the incidents of two suicides and one suicide attempt were not just tragedies but also a betrayal of humanity itself.
