Kolkata, Oct. 30 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that since the ECI's announcement of SIR, her state was witnessing "tragic consequences of the BJP's politics of fear, division and hate."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 in the state.
On October 27, a 57-year-old Pradeep Kar of Panihati, Khardaha in North 24 Parganas died by suicide, leaving a note that read, "NRC is responsible for my death."On October 28, a 63-year-old man from Dinhata, Cooch Behar attempted to take his life, terrified of harassment under the SIR process, Banerjee claimed in a media statement...