West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has plunged deeper into the politics of deceit, exploiting tragedy after tragedy to weave a new web of lies around the Status Identification Register (SIR) and NRC (National Register of Citizens). Her latest attempt to politicise the death of 95-year-old Khitish Majumdar, who reportedly took his life in Birbhum district, has drawn fierce condemnation from the BJP, with party IT Cell chief Amit Malviya calling her campaign a “cynical, manufactured drama aimed at reviving dead propaganda.”
Mamata Banerjee’s blatant lies over the tragic suicide of 57-year-old Pradeep Kar of Panihati have already been exposed, as she shamelessly tried to link his death with the NRC.
Now, she has outdone herself by stooping to an abysmal new low!
This time, she is politicising the… https://t.co/GUngWxeZGd— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) October 30, 2025
This comes just days after Banerjee’s earlier narrative that of 57-year-old Pradeep Kar of Panihati, Khardaha was exposed as hollow when ground reports revealed no direct link between his death and the NRC.
Yet, despite facts and logic being against her, Mamata Banerjee continues to politicise death, distort reality, and stoke public fear, in what appears to be a desperate attempt to hold on to her crumbling political bastions across Bengal.
On October 27, Mamata Banerjee claimed that 57-year-old Pradeep Kar of Panihati died by suicide, leaving behind a note blaming “NRC” for his death. Within 24 hours, October 28, she said a 63-year-old man from Dinhata (Cooch Behar) attempted suicide fearing harassment under the SIR process. And by October 29, she declared that 95-year-old Khitish Majumdar, a resident of Kotwali, Paschim Medinipur, had ended his life in Ilambazar, Birbhum, gripped by the fear that his family would lose their land under the same exercise.
In each case, Banerjee rushed to the public platform not to comfort the families or announce aid but to craft a political narrative, blaming the BJP for “politics of fear, division and hate.”
Her post on X said, “A 95-year-old man, who has given his life to this soil, forced to die to prove he belongs to it. This is not just tragedy—it is betrayal of humanity itself. However, as Amit Malviya and BJP leaders pointed out, there is no logical or factual basis for Banerjee’s claim.
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
In a scathing rebuttal, Amit Malviya exposed the inconsistencies in Banerjee’s narrative. “How can a 95-year-old man, born in 1930, an Indian by birth, fear losing citizenship under SIR or NRC? Even if, by the most absurd logic, he wasn’t considered Indian post-Partition, he would automatically qualify for citizenship under the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act), being a Hindu,” Malviya said.
Malviya added that it was Mamata Banerjee’s corrupt administration, not the SIR, that had “blood on its hands.” The BJP leader accused the Chief Minister of manipulating vulnerable citizens through deliberate misinformation and terror tactics propagated by local TMC cadre.
“The man lived in Ilambazar, a known TMC stronghold, where political intimidation and extortion are routine. What if he was harassed, threatened, or misled into fear by TMC goons? What if he was prevented from applying under the CAA, despite being eligible, just because Mamata Banerjee declared the law would ‘never be implemented in Bengal’?” Malviya questioned.
Since 2019, the TMC’s politics in Bengal has revolved around weaponising fear of the NRC and CAA, even though the NRC has not been implemented in the state. The SIR an administrative register designed to identify residents is now being falsely equated with NRC by the TMC to resurrect its anti-BJP propaganda machinery.
Banerjee’s speeches, laced with emotional hyperbole, often accuse the BJP of plotting to “make Bengalis foreigners in their own land.” Yet, the same government refuses to clarify that no NRC process has been initiated in Bengal and that the CAA protects persecuted Hindus and minorities from neighbouring Islamic nations.
Political observers note that Banerjee’s strategy is clear: project the BJP as an existential threat to ordinary citizens, particularly rural Hindus and minorities, to retain her fast-eroding vote base.
“This is not about governance anymore,” said a senior BJP functionary. “It’s about manufacturing paranoia. When your administration collapses under corruption and violence, you invent an enemy to distract the people.”
While Banerjee accuses the Centre of spreading fear, her own government is mired in scandals from the teacher recruitment scam to the coal and cattle smuggling rackets, all of which have seen TMC leaders arrested by central agencies.
Law and order has deteriorated sharply, with political violence, extortion, and sexual crimes making headlines every week. Rural Bengal, once a bastion of Trinamool dominance, now seethes with resentment as people face cut money, local-level tyranny, and economic stagnation.
Ironically, the very law Banerjee demonises the Citizenship Amendment Act, offers protection to the kind of citizens she claims to defend. The CAA grants citizenship to persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, who entered India before December 31, 2014.
Yet, Banerjee’s government has refused to facilitate its implementation, instead launching disinformation drives in rural areas, falsely claiming that “everyone will lose citizenship.” This manufactured hysteria, BJP leaders allege, is what pushes vulnerable people into panic not the law itself.
Amit Malviya has vowed that once the BJP comes to power in Bengal, all such suicides and deaths will be investigated, and the role of local TMC miscreants will be exposed. “The BJP will bring justice to every family that has been victimised by TMC’s lies and fear tactics,” he declared.
He said the time had come to expose Mamata Banerjee’s “fear industry” a network of propaganda, intimidation, and emotional manipulation that thrives on exploiting grief. “She is insulting the intelligence of Bengalis by suggesting that a 95-year-old Indian would die fearing NRC. This is not compassion — it’s political theatre,” Malviya asserted.
