India, Oct. 28 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee targeted the Centre on Tuesday after a 57-year-old man died by suicide in North 24 Parganas district's Agarpara, leaving a note holding the National Register of Citizens (NRC) responsible for his death. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however, said it was Mamata Banerjee who caused panic among people by spreading misinformation on NRC.

"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 weaponizing insecurity for votes. They have turned constitutional democracy into a draconian law-regime, where people are made to doubt their own right to exist," the chief minister wrote on X....