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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee charged the Bharatiya Janata Party with spreading fear over the National Register of Citizens , hours after the alleged suicide of a man near Kolkata, who reportedly left behind a note blaming the National Register of Citizens for his death.
Barrackpore police commissionerate Muralidhar Sharma said after visiting the spot that 57-year-old Pradeep Kar was found hanging at his residence in Panihati in North 24 Parganas on Tuesday morning.
According to media reports, A suicide note was found in which NRC was mentioned, Sharma said, adding that preliminary investigations revealed the person was in depression after the announcement of the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls on Monday.
The BJP asserted that the cause of the suicide must be determined only by the investigating agencies, and not through political rhetoric
Condemning what she described as the BJP’s “politics of fear and division,” the CM alleged that the party’s campaign around the National Register of Citizens has created panic among people.
We are witnessing the 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…
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) October 30, 2025
“It shakes me to the very core to imagine how, for years, Bharatiya Janata Party has tormented innocent citizens with the threat of NRC, spreading lies, stoking panic and weaponising insecurity for votes,” Banerjee said in the post.
