TMC issues notice to party MLA for offering money to parents of child killed in bomb attack

The Trinamool Congress on Thursday (June 26, 2025) issued a show cause notice to party MLA from Debra, former IPS officer Humayun Kabir, who on Wednesday (June 25, 2025) allegedly offered money to the parents of Tamanna Khatun, the minor girl who was killed in Kaliganj, Nadia, in a crude bomb explosion.

Sources in the party said that it has sought an explanation from the MLA on why he offered money to parents of the child who was killed on Monday. The MLA had visited the residence of Tamanna on Wednesday (June 25, 2025) and allegedly offered money, which Sabina Khatun, the mother of the child, refused.

The whole incident was caught on camera where Sabina Khatun gets angry and says they do not want any money. “No, no, no. We have a house, land. For whom will we need money? There is no one in the family to take the money,” the mother is heard telling the cop turned politician.

Mr. Kabir, however, said that he was visiting Kaliganj not as a politician but as an ordinary citizen.

Five people have been arrested so far in connection with the blast which killed the child on the day when counting of voters for the Kaliganj Assembly seat was underway on Monday (June 23, 2025). According to the West Bengal police, after reports of the electoral lead by the TMC candidate in the Kaliganj Assembly polls, a group of miscreants reportedly engaged in a celebratory procession during which crude bombs were hurled, allegedly to assert dominance over rival factions and one such bomb tragically resulted in the death of Tamanna Khatun.

The incident occurred at Molandi village in the Kaliganj Assembly seat in State’s Nadia district. The parents of the deceased child said that they are living in fear.

The family members of the deceased child are supporters of Communist Party of India (Marxist) whereas the locals claimed that those arrested were supporters of Trinamool Congress.

BJP MLA and leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari lauded the victim’s mother for not accepting the money from the TMC legislator. “She is a brave woman. I salute her for not accepting the money and asking the TMC MLA to leave,” Mr. Adhikari said. Leaders of CPI(M), Congress and Indian Secular Front have also paid a visit to the family.

Prior to this, parents of the doctor who was raped and killed at R.G. Kar Hospital and Medical College in August 2024 have also refused any compensation from the West Bengal government.