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Emphasising that she volition not licence a azygous morganatic national to beryllium branded an ‘outsider’, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (October 30, 2025) appealed to citizens of the State not to get provoked by the ongoing workout of Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
“We are witnessing the tragic consequences of the BJP’s authorities of fear, part and hate. Within 72 hours of the Election Commission’s announcement of the SIR workout successful Bengal — An workout bulldozed done astatine the BJP’s behest. One avoidable calamity aft different has occurred,” Ms. Banerjee posted connected societal media.
The Trinamool Congress chairperson who had earlier highlighted the death of 57-year-old Pradip Kar, who according to her had near a enactment that read, “NRC is liable for my death”, added connected Thursday that 95-year-old Khitish Majumder from Kotwali, Paschim Medinipur surviving with his girl successful Ilambazar, Birbhum ended his life, “gripped by the fearfulness that helium and his household mightiness beryllium dispossessed of their land”.
Ms. Banerjee said specified incidents were not conscionable calamity but “betrayal of humanity itself”.
“Who volition reply for these avoidable, politically inflicted tragedies? Will the Home Minister judge responsibility? Will the BJP and its allies, nether whose ticker this fearfulness psychosis has spread, find the courageousness to talk out? A 95-year-old man, who has fixed his beingness to this soil, forced to dice to beryllium helium belongs to it. What could beryllium a deeper coiled connected the nation’s conscience?” she asked.
The Chief Minister, who had dubbed the SIR arsenic National Register of Citizens (NRC) done backmost door, reiterated that her authorities “will not let NRC to beryllium implemented successful Bengal — neither done the beforehand door, nor done the backmost door”. “Our Maa-Mati-Manush Sarkar stands with you....We volition not licence a azygous morganatic national to beryllium branded an ‘outsider’,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress connected Thursday raised allegations of 2002 elector list, connected the ground of which SIR is being conducted, has been manipulated. Trinamool Congress person Kunal Ghosh cited notation of polling booths successful Cooch Behar Natabari Assembly spot and Ashoknagar successful North 24 Parganas, wherever determination are discrepancies successful the 2002 elector list, which has been uploaded and which has been successful nationalist domain.
The Trinamool Congress enactment besides held a protestation astatine Panihati, the locality wherever Pradip Kumar Kar utilized to reside. Trinamool Congress person Abhishek Banerjee had connected Wednesday visited the residence of the deceased and called for protestation nether the banner of “Justice for Pradeep Kar”. “Justice for Pradeep Kar is not conscionable a demand, it is simply a promise: that Bengal volition basal united, fearless, and determined against immoderate unit that seeks to disagreement and intimidate,” the Trinamool Congress said connected societal media.
Meanwhile, questions person been raised connected the veracity of the termination enactment of Padeep Kar, with a conception of neighbours of the deceased saying that helium did not person nary 2 fingers successful his close hand. The household members of Pradip Kumar Kar filed a constabulary ailment implicit the decease astatine the section constabulary station.
Bharatiya Janata Party person Suvendu Adhikari said that each these allegations of termination were false. “ If anyone is struck by lightning oregon falls disconnected a tree, they are going to blasted the SIR. The workout is being carried successful 12 States, whys is the Chief Minister and her nephew lone feeling the heat,” Mr. Adhikari said.
BJP person Amit Malviya successful a societal media station said “if Mamata Banerjee insists connected weaving tales to substance fearfulness and stall SIR, she should astatine slightest marque them logical”. “Why would a 95-year-old man, calved successful 1930 and an Indian by birth, instrumentality his ain beingness implicit SIR? Even if, by immoderate logic, helium was not an Indian national post-Partition and aboriginal migrated to India, helium was automatically eligible for Indian citizenship nether the CAA, being a Hindu,” the BJP IT caput said.
