Bengal

XKolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has claimed that a migrant worker from East Burdwan district died allegedly due to anxiety over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. This marks five suicides in the past few days out of fear of SIR, of which four people have died.

The deceased, Bimal Santra, 51, of Nabagram village in Jamalpur, had been working in Tamil Nadu and was “under severe stress and feared being declared a non-citizen if his name did not appear in the 2002 voter rolls,” his son, Bapi Santra, said.

In a social media post, the TMC alleged that Santra’s death was triggered by fear linked to the SIR process, describing it as “another precious life lost to @BJP4India’s politics of fear and hatred”. The party termed the revision drive an “in

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