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SIR death: "How many dying more do you want?" - Ask Minister Arup Biswas

"How many deaths more you need to secure your goals in the name of SIR -" cried state Power Minister Arup Biswas today after the police recovered the charred corpse of a middle-aged unmarried woman from her residence here this morning.

An unmarried middle-aged woman suffering from SIR panic after her form couldn't be uploaded due to server problems allegedly chose self-immolation at a village in Bhatar block in East Burdwan last evening.

The police recovered her charred body today and dispatched to Burdwan Medical College & Hospital for postmortem and recorded a case of unnatural death. State Power Minister Arup Biswas visiting the Trinamul Congress's war-rooms across East Burdwan since yesterday reacted sharply on receiving the death information of the woman today.

The Minister said: "The BJP and the Election Commission must take the responsibility of such deaths as the hurried Commission is consistently failing to ensure a sound server, which resulted successive failures while uploading the form datas." He claimed: "This woman already was panicked with the BJP's high-pitched propaganda, and now, when the slower server failed to upload her form, she went further panicked of losing citizenship

Unmarried Mastura Khatun (40) of Bhumsor village in Bhatar block, as her family members claimed, was panicked since the day she was served the enumeration form for Special Intensive Revision were. Deceased's elder sister Astura Begum said today: "Our parents already passed away long back, and Mastura was residing alone here. She somehow has grown a wrong perception that she'll be pushed back to another country once her form isn't submitted on time. As this couldn't be possible, she chose to die, we suppose."

The MLA, Bhatar, Manhobinda Adhikari, and Sayoni Ghosh, MP, Jadavpur met the bereaved family following an instruction by the national general secretary of the Trinamul Congress, Abhishek Banerjee. Minister Biswas said: "May I ask Commission- how many deaths more you want in Bengal? Your autocratic decision to see completion of a two year's work in two months is claiming the lives of Bengali people almost everyday."

The BJP's state committee member Lakshman Ghorui meanwhile has blamed TMC for politicizing the deaths. He said: "The TMC's hyper aggressive bids have frightened the common people, which have invited such deaths."