A 57-year-old man, who was found hanging at his Panighati residence in Barrackpore on Tuesday morning, in his purported ‘suicide note’ stated that “NRC is responsible for my death”.

Pradeep Kar, according to his family members, became “restless” on Monday after the Election Commission announced Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal from November 4.

While Kar was born and brought up in West Bengal, his father had migrated from Bangladesh, his family said.

The Opposition BJP has been demanding an exercise to publish the National Register of Citizens ( NRC ) in West Bengal, on the lines of Assam, alleging that the state has been infiltrated by illegal Bangladeshis and the NRC would help weed them out.

The alleged suicide, meanwhile, triggered a political

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