Mamata Blames Centre For Bengal Man's Suicide Over NRC, BJP Says She's 'Spreading Panic'

Last Updated:October 28, 2025, 17:10 IST

A 57-year-old man from North 24 Parganas district allegedly took his own life, leaving behind a note blaming the Register of Citizens for his death

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (PTI Image)

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of spreading fear and division through its NRC campaign, after a 57-year-old man from North 24 Parganas reportedly took his own life in panic over the Register of Citizens (NRC).

The deceased, identified as Pradeep Kar, a resident of Mahajati Nagar in Agarpara, was found hanging from the ceiling inside his home. Local residents discovered the body and informed the police. Officers from Khardah Police Station arrived soon after, recovered the body, and sent it for post-mortem examination.

Police said a diary was recovered from beside the body. In it, several entries referred to the NRC, and on the final page, a line read: “NRC is responsible for my death." The incident has caused shock and concern in the neighbourhood.

Reacting to the incident, the Chief Minister took to X to express her condolences and condemned what she called the BJP’s ‘politics of fear and division.’ She claimed that the party’s ongoing NRC campaign had caused widespread panic among citizens."

In her post, Banerjee wrote that the tragedy reflected how the BJP’s “venomous propaganda" had pushed ordinary people to despair.

“It shakes me to the very core to imagine how, for years, BJP has tormented innocent citizens with the threat of NRC, spreading lies, stoking panic and weaponising insecurity for votes. They have turned constitutional democracy into a theatre of fear, where people are made to doubt their own right to exist," she wrote.

The TMC supremo accused the BJP of creating a climate of anxiety in the name of nationalism. “Those who sit in Delhi and preach nationalism have pushed ordinary Indians to such despair that they are dying in their own land, fearing they will be declared ‘FOREIGNERS’," she said.

Reiterating her government’s opposition to the NRC, Banerjee said the exercise would not be permitted in West Bengal.

“Bengal will never allow NRC, and never allow anyone to strip our people of their dignity or belonging. Our soil belongs to Maa, Mati, Manush, not to those who thrive on hate," the Chief Minister noted.

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