bengal cm slams bjp after second suicide 'over s.i.r.'
	
		
				Kolkata, Oct. 31 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday intensified her attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls after a second person allegedly died by suicide in as many days out of fears that he may be branded as an "infiltrator" during the exercise and deported.
Police said the body of the victim, a 95-year-old resident of Birbhum district, was found in his bedroom on Thursday. "He was scared of losing his land and property as his name does not figure in the 2002 electoral roll," the victim's granddaughter said.
Banerjee slammed the BJP over the deaths, saying in a post on X, "Who will answer for these avoidable, politically inflicted tragedies?... Will th...
		
			
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