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Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday sparked a fresh political storm after he urged people to “tie up" local BJP leaders if they asked for their parents’ birth certificates during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls or for National Register of Citizens (NRC) verification.

His remarks after Pradeep Kar, 57, a resident of Mahajati Nagar in Agarpara, allegedly died by suicide in panic over the NRC verification. Police said a diary was recovered from beside the body, where he reportedly wrote, “NRC is responsible for my death."

Linking Kar’s death to the SIR, Abhishek Banerjee claimed that the anxiety created by the BJP and the Election Commission had driven the man to take the extreme step and accused

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