A day after Mamata Banerjee offered a government job to a family member of Maidul Islam Middya, the young DYFI leader who died on Monday allegedly of cop-inflicted injuries in Thursday’s Left march, Trinamul leader and minister Shyamal Santra met Maidul’s wife on Tuesday with the promise of a job.

Maidul, a resident of Chorkola village in Bankura’s Kotulpur, was the sole breadwinner for his mother, wife, two daughters and a niece.

Santra, also Bankura district president of Trinamul and Kotulpur MLA, said: “I gave some financial help and promised to stand by the family till Maidul’s wife (Aleya) got the job. His mother will get old age pension as soon as possible.”

CPM leaders and villagers questioned the intent of the government that is yet to take action against the cops.

Mamoni Begum, a cousin of Maidul, said she wanted “punishment for murder”. Ajit Pati, secretary of the CPM’s Bankura district committee, was scathing. “Has the government taken any step against the cops who beat up our youth leader? The job offer is an eyewash to cover up the crime that the police have committed.”

Earlier on Tuesday, DYFI state president Meenakshi Mukherjee, state secretary Sayandeep Mitra, all-India general secretary Abhay Mukherjee, and senior SFI and CPM leaders were present with thousands of villagers when the body of Maidul was laid to rest.

The BJP is also planning to send a team to meet Maidul’s family. Calling the death unfortunate, BJP state president Dilip Ghosh added his party “lost 135 workers and no one offered their families jobs”.

Additional reporting by Arkamoy Dutta Majumdar