Amrina Khatoon dies of hunger, family accuses Railway Ministry of lying
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A video of 35-year-old woman, Amrina Khatoon went viral on social media yesterday after a baby was seen with a shroud covering its dead mother at Muzaffarpur station in Bihar. This was one among many tragic visuals to emerge from daily reports of migrants stranded by the lockdown.
The child can be seen tugging at the cloth placed over the woman’s body and the fabric coming out while the woman’s body was not moving as she had died moments before.
The Railway ministry later tweeted in the day that reports of her death due to hunger was false and that she was ill before starting the journey.
However, when Karvaan India reached out to the family, it had a different story to tell. Mohammad Wazir, who is Amrina’s brother in law, claims that Railway Ministry is lying and that the woman did not have not any prior illness, and that she died of hunger. The woman worked at a construction site in Gujarat.
Commenting on Railway Ministries, Tweet, the man said, “Anyone who is saying that the woman had prior illness is lying. There is no truth to in it. She was fit and healthy and died because of hunger and thirst on the journey.
The woman was a divorcee and is survived by two children. The elder one is four years old, and the younger one is two years old. The family belongs to Shrikaul village in Katihar district of Bihar.
However, there is another copy of a document doing rounds on social media that looks like an FIR filed by the brother in law on May 25, 2020, stating that the woman was mentally unstable and ill for last few days.
We are producing a copy of that document Tweeted by twitter user Aditya Sharma.
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Lady who died in the train her name is Amrina khatun husband left her few days back she was mentally disturbed and ill for last few days, clearly written in FIR copy submitted by her brother in law !!! pic.twitter.com/APXEE6MZe0
— Aditya Sharma (@Aditya_Adiiiii) May 28, 2020
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Kolkata Port: Decline in number of voters during SIR brings in uncertainty in TMC bastion
Kolkata (PTI): A sharp decline in the number of voters following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has injected an element of uncertainty into the Kolkata Port Assembly constituency, considered a safe seat for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC).
The electorate in the south Kolkata constituency has dropped from 2.36 lakh in the 2021 Assembly polls to around 1.75 lakh, a fall of nearly 26 per cent, prompting political parties to closely assess its potential impact on the April 29 polling.
The TMC re-nominated senior minister and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, who has held the seat for two consecutive terms, while the BJP fielded Rakesh Singh. The Congress nominated Aquib Gulzar, and the CPI(M) put up Faiyaz Ahmad Khan, making it a four-cornered contest.
Kolkata Port, part of the Kolkata Dakshin parliamentary constituency, comprises dock areas, old business districts and densely populated neighbourhoods. Muslim voters form a significant segment of the electorate, alongside traders, transport workers and working-class Hindu families.
The reduction in voter numbers has prompted party workers across formations to scrutinise the revised rolls booth-wise to identify deletions and assess whether specific localities have been affected.
Singh’s candidature has added a twist to the contest. He had earlier contested against Hakim as a Congress candidate but is now in the fray on a BJP ticket.
Hakim won the seat in 2016 by 26,548 votes, defeating Singh, and increased his margin significantly to 68,554 votes in 2021, polling over one lakh votes.
While the TMC has expressed confidence in retaining the seat, opposition parties have raised concerns over the voter list revision, alleging that names of genuine voters have been removed.
“People here know who has stood by them. Elections are decided by trust,” Hakim told PTI during a campaign event.
Singh claimed several residents had complained about missing names in the rolls, stressing the need for transparency. The CPI(M) nominee also said voters in several areas had raised similar concerns.
The constituency has remained a difficult terrain for the opposition in recent elections.
Civic issues such as sanitation, traffic congestion and declining business activity in traditional markets also feature in the campaign in the constituency, though the revised voter list has emerged as a key talking point.
Polling in the constituency will be held in the second phase on April 29, with counting scheduled for May 4.
