Trinamool links migrant worker’s death to SIR; Opposition accuses party of stoking panic

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The Trinamool Congress enactment successful West Bengal connected Sunday linked the decease of a migrant idiosyncratic from Jamalpur successful Purba Bardhaman to anxiousness sparked by the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, portion Opposition parties accused the Trinamool of creating panic among voters.

In a societal media station drafting attraction to the death, the enactment wrote: “another precious beingness mislaid to @BJP4India’s authorities of fearfulness and hatred”.

The migrant, Bimal Satra, who had been moving successful Tamil Nadu, died a fewer days agone and his assemblage was brought to his residence successful Jamalpur connected Saturday evening. Trinamool leaders, including the territory president, visited the family. The party’s station said, “And now, Bimal Santra, a migrant idiosyncratic from Nabagram colony of Jamalpur, Purba Bardhaman, who died of fearfulness sparked by SIR. This is the quality outgo of an workout designed to terrorise and displace. SIR is an instrumentality of intimidation, driving our radical to despair, forcing them to question their citizenship and their close to belong. @BJP4India , your hands are stained with blood.”

The lad of the deceased, Bapi Santra, told reporters that his begetter had gone to Tamil Nadu aft losing enactment and was admitted to infirmary aft his information deteriorated. “My begetter was nether terrible accent implicit his sanction successful the elector list. He was hospitalised owed to this. We contacted our MLA, who helped america a batch successful this crisis,” helium said.

While the lad said his begetter died successful hospital, Rabindranath Chatterjee, Trinamool’s territory president and Katwa MLA, said the migrant idiosyncratic died by termination aft consuming poison.

The Trinamool has highlighted respective caller deaths and attributed them to distress caused by SIR. These see the deaths of Pradeep Kar of Panihati and 95-year-old Khitish Majumder of Kotwali successful Paschim Medinipur. Trinamool wide caput Abhishek Banerjee precocious visited Pradeep Kar’s household and has called for protests demanding justice. On November 4, enactment chairperson Mamata Banerjee and Mr. Banerjee are scheduled to pb protests successful Kolkata against SIR.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress and the CPI(M) person accused the Trinamool of fomenting fear. BJP person Keya Ghosh said that portion each decease was unfortunate, the Trinamool was indulging successful “vulture politics” implicit the incidents. Ms. Ghosh noted that Pradeep Kar had missing fingers and said his sanction appeared connected the elector lists of 2002 and 2025. She cautioned the nationalist against what she described arsenic attempts by the Trinamool to politicise deaths and adjacent to prehend bodies to nexus them to SIR.

Congress spokesperson Soumya Aich Roy likewise accused Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool leaders of spreading panic implicit the revision exercise.

Separately, a section Trinamool trade-union person successful Bamangachi, Tapas Dasgupta, was recorded urging supporters to rise the spectre of “detention camps” among women. “If your sanction is removed from the elector list, you volition beryllium sent to a detention camp. We person to spell to each location successful the portion and instill this fearfulness successful the pistillate members of the family. We person to spell into people’s kitchens and rise the contented of elector database successful the conversation,” helium was heard saying.

Published - November 02, 2025 10:08 p.m. IST

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