'Will Chop Them Up...': Mithun Chakraborty At Kolkata Rally With Amit Shah
NDTV
Before Mithun Chakraborty's incendiary speech Amit Shah spoke, accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of overseeing "state-sponsored infiltration".
The political atmosphere in Bengal - an already frenzied battleground between the ruling Trinamool and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, before by-polls to six Assembly seats next month - soured further Sunday after actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty's message of violence in Kolkata.
Chakraborty, 74, referred to a pre-Lok Sabha election comment by the Trinamool's Humayun Kabir - who had threatened rival party workers on religious grounds, and was censured by the Election Commission - and called on BJP karyakartas to "chop them (up) and bury you in the ground".
"A leader says there are 70 per cent Muslims and 30 per cent Hindus (and) that he will 'cut' and throw them in the Bhagirathi... I thought Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee) would say something. She didn't... so now I am saying, we will chop them (up) and bury them in the ground..." he said.
