India, Oct. 29 -- Abhishek Banerjee of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress has blamed the Centre's ruling BJP and the Election Commission of India for creating anxiety that allegedly claimed the life of a man near Kolkata.

He also told people to "confront and "tie up" local BJP leaders "if they ask for your parents' birth certificates" during the recently-begun Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, or if a National Register of Citizens (NRC) is carried out.

The Lok Sabha member made the comments after he visited the family of a 57-year-old man who allegedly died by suicide at Panihati near the state capital.

Linking the death directly to SIR - EC started it on October 28 in 12 states, including poll-bound Bengal - th...