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Kolkata, Dec 8 (IANS) Causing more embarrassment to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, singer-turned-party MP Kabir Suman has now composed a song criticising the Dec 1 police firing in Magrahat in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal which left two women dead.

A total of 22 people, including 16 policemen, were injured as clashes between villagers and security forces over illegal electric connections in South 24 Parganas led to the police opening fire.

Power department officials who went to the area with the police met with strong resistance from the locals, who fought a pitched battle with the law keepers.

Bombs and stones were used and government vehicles burnt down by the mob.

One of the dead was a teenaged school girl Rejina Khatun, while the other victim was a 32-year-old woman Saira Bibi.

Suman, who had earlier courted controversy and drew flak from the Trinamool supremo for eulogising slain or arrested Maoist leaders, sang paens to Khatun.

“Rejina Khatun Mograhater kothai tomar bari/ policer guli tomai niye ajanai dilo pari (Rejina Khatum of Mograhat, where is your home, you have gone to a never never land after being hit by a police bullet),” Suman says in the song uploaded on his website — www.kabirsumanonline.com.

The song further says: “Saira Bibi has also gone there/ what will you say, was it police firing or local bombing/ electricity hooking, electricity hooking how will we do without electricity? Rejina you were not a voter like Saira Bibi, at least there is grief that one vote has been lost.

“Rejina, were you Trinamool or CPI-M supporter… let’s run away from this country/ You are going, leaving behind old Kabir uncle/ After deaths of how many Rejinas will we get to see democracy? Your radical uncle only knows how to compose songs.”

Only days earlier, Suman had penned a song - “A song for a hero” - apparently eulogising without naming top Maoist leader Kishenji, who was gunned down by security forces late last month.

“Beer more beerer moto, beer more eka/ Bondhura abar hobe bidrohe dekha (The brave meet a brave death, brave dies all alone/Friends we will meet again during the revolution),” said the MP, known for his pro-Maoist views.

Touching upon the claims that Kishenji was killed in a staged shootout, the song says: “Whether the gun battle is fake or real, life’s greatness raised slogans in death.”

Suman’s relationship with the Trinamool leadership got strained within months of his election to the Lok Sabha from Jadavpore when he raised his voice against alleged corruption among a section of party leaders and openly condemned the joint forces operating in the Maoist-affected districts of the state.