Malda: The death of a 77-year-old woman led to an unrest in a Raiganj village on Monday. It all started when electoral officers, out to collect elderly citizens’ votes, visited the house of 85-year-old Kalu Sheikh in Viti Katihar village.A 77-year-old woman, Tafijan Bibi, died after collapsing during a confrontation over home voting in Raiganj on Monday.As the Election Commission team including a returning officer, a BLO, security personnel and central forces, reached the home of Sheikh, his family demanded that his daughter Jahida, a person with disabilities, be allowed to stay in the room, especially because Sheikh was blind. When the EC team allegedly refused, an argument started which soon heated up as villagers and TMC workers gathered at the site.
