Unfair To Drag A Tragedy Into The Premises Of Politics And Hurt The Family Of KK
By D N Singh
Post the unfortunate demise of the popular playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, the mud-slinging match by politicians reveals as to what low politics can down to.
A media report sometime back read that, BJP’s national vice president and party MP, Dilip Ghosh has said the incident correlates to Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent take in the parliament ‘Bengal Killings’.
What and in which context the union home minister had made that comment notwithstanding, Ghosh has rushed into it drawing inferences linking it with the death of KK, as if the singer’s security of health was compromised with by the Trinamool Congress, which, according to Ghosh, had sponsored the event.
And the live program at Nazrul Manch on Tuesday night was not organized by the college but by the TC.
Pending the outcome of the probe into the death the Kolkata police has already made it a case of ‘unnatural death’ and the investigation is underway.
Now joining those dots from what had transpired in the Rajya Sabha, Ghosh’s attempt to seek political mileage from the statement must not have augured well with the BJP’s national leadership.
It may be recalled that, hardly hours have passed when BJP’s national leadership had censored Ghosh on making any statement before the media which might sully the party’s image and trust.
Maybe the deceased singer was a victim of some calculated design of some, but no singer of such fame would have been forced to perform in a state of extreme delirium as some unconfirmed reports said.
“KK was forced to sing even though he was feeling uneasy. He was sweating and wanted to leave. But he was not allowed. This was sheer conspiracy. In that process a talented singer got killed,” Ghosh was quoted to have said on Thursday.
When the Kolkata police have volunteered a probe construing the incident as ‘unnatural death’, then why politicians like Dilip Ghosh jump the gun to make such a pre-indisposed statement which sounds to be more political than a statement of compassion.
On the other hand, KK’s Manager, Ritesh Bhat has reportedly contradicted the stance taken by Ghosh. Bhat was there with the deceased singer throughout the program.
Let’s imagine the plight and mental anguish the family of KK and it would be to their utter dismay that, such politics can have the access into the inner recesses of their mind like a burning nail into the flesh.
