Almost a week after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress continues to blame the exercise for unnatural deaths in the State.
The West Bengal ruling party cited two instances in the past two days of unnatural death and a suicide bid on the SIR. In a social media post, the Trinamool Congress said that Biman Pramanik, a resident of Hooghly, “suffered a fatal cardiac arrest after days of unbearable anxiety”.
“His name had been wrongly recorded as 'Biman Pal' in the SIR list, an error that, for him, became a matter of existence, identity, belonging, and dignity,” the party posted on social media, sharing photographs of the State’s Transport Minister Snehasish Chakraborty meeting bereaved relatives of the deceased.
In another social media post the West Bengal’s ruling party pointed out that a middle-aged man died by suicide in Bhangar, “driven to despair by the dread of being erased from the voters’ list under the SIR process”. Canning Purba Trinamool Congress MLA Saukat Mollah met the family of the deceased.
“As admitted by the Home Minister himself, @BJP4India is on a mission to DETECT, DELETE, and DEPORT. Bengalis are legitimate citizens of this country who have lived here for generations with pride and dignity,” the party posted on social media.
