Popular folk singer Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya dies in accident

A senior district police officer said Bhattacharya was travelling along with four members of his Bangla band, 'Dohar', when their SUV was hit from behind by a truck on NH 2 and fell into a shallow waterbody. Bhattacharya was rescued from the mangled vehicle along with other occupants of the car and rushed to Burdwan Medical College and Hospital where the Silchar-born singer was
declared brought dead, the officer said.

Four others were undergoing treatment at the hospital and the condition of three of them was stated to be critical, the officer said.

Expressing grief over Bhattacharya's death, singer-music composer Shantanu Moitra said, "I wish this news you have given were not true." "Kalika and I had been planning to do a collaborative music project and we were scheduled to meet very soon," Moitra
said.

Music composer Debojyoti Mishra said, "He was credited with infusing folk elements in new form in Bengali music and whenever I met him I was struck by his creative thinking."

Bhattacharya, a resident of South Kolkata, was on way to a school function in Birbhum district when the incident
occured at around 9:30 am.

Besides popularising folk songs of rural Bengal among the present generation in the albums of his band 'Dohar', he had also lent his voice in films like Jaatishwar (2014), Moner Manush (2010) and Bhuban Majhi (2017).

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today condoled the death of popular Bengali folk music singer Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya.

Bhattacharya passed away in a road mishap at Palsit in Burdwan district this morning. In a message, Banerjee said, "I am deeply saddened over the untimely demise of singer Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya. My condolences to the near ones of the deceased."

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