'Don't Seek Sympathy': Daughter Killed in TMC Victory Rally, Sabina Yasmin Is Keen to Focus Her Fight on More Issues |
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Kaliganj (Bengal): “I am Tamanna’s mother. My daughter was brutally killed in a barbaric act of savage celebration by the state ruling party. I do not seek sympathy. I only wish that no mother’s arms are left empty, that no flower withers before its time.”
Amid the ongoing West Bengal legislative assembly elections, Sabina Yasmin’s appeal echoes through the air of Kaliganj assembly constituency in Nadia district. A grieving mother who lost her child allegedly at the hands of the Trinamool Congress’s supporters who were celebrating a by-poll victory with bombs, is the Left Front-affiliated Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate.
Kaliganj is located nearly 170 kilometres to the north of Kolkata. The Kaliganj assembly constituency comprises 13 gram panchayats, most of them inhabited by working-class and economically disadvantaged people. A significant portion of the population in the area belongs to the minority Muslim community.
Under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, around 13,000 voters in this constituency were reportedly marked as “deleted” from the electoral rolls. In Molandi, Sabina Yasmin’s village, as many as 428 voters have been deleted.
As The Wire has reported before, on June 23, 2025, following the Trinamool Congress’s victory in the Kaliganj assembly constituency by-election, it is alleged that TMC supporters, during a drunken celebration of their win, threw a bomb at Tamanna Khatun, a Class 4 student from Molandi village in Nadia. She was killed instantly. Her father, Hossan Sheikh, is a migrant labourer and it was well known that he is a supporter of the CPI(M).
Tamanna Khatun, killed by a crude bomb explosion in Kaliganj, West Bengal. Photo: By arrangement/File.
The initial outrage, with people demanding the arrest and strict punishment of the perpetrators, continues as of the 24 accused in the murder, 14 remain absconding, according to Kaliganj Police Station records. However, residents of Molandi village allege that many of them are, in fact, moving about openly in the........