‘Planned murder, total failure’: BJP attacks Trinamool govt over singer KK’s death
India Today
The BJP has slammed the TMC over the death of singer KK in Kolkata on May 31.
A day after the West Bengal government accorded state honours to late singer KK who died in Kolkata after a show on May 31, the BJP has attacked the ruling All India Trinamool Congress over the death.
While BJP MP Dilip Ghosh called it a ‘murder’, BJP Bengal chief Sukanta Majumdar said it was a ‘total administrative failure’. Ghosh even accused the TMC-led students’ union which organised the show of forcing the singer to perform despite being unwell.
Meanwhile, the singer’s manager Hitesh Bhatt has said the singer was fine during the concert and fell ill only afterwards. As per the autopsy, he suffered a massive heart attack and did not die due to unnatural causes.
Singer KK died on Tuesday night reportedly of a massive heart attack, shortly after performing at a concert in Nazrul Mancha in Kolkata. Hours after his death, eyewitnesses claimed that the hall was packed beyond its capacity, the air-conditioning was not working and the singer had complained of heat and humidity during the show.
Responding to the BJP's statements, Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim of the TMC said the BJP is a party of vultures that looks for "dead bodies to indulge in politics".
"They only indulge in politics of killing. A person can fall sick - it is unfortunate and extremely tragic that such a person has lost his life. To indulge in politics over such a death is abominable. BJP is like a vulture, they look for deaths to use for politics. We want to stand by the family, CM gave him state honours," he said.
"I don't think there was any fault at the venue," he added.
