Bollywood actor-turned-BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Sunday further heated up the already tense political atmosphere in West Bengal by giving a message of violence against a statement by TMC leader Humayun Kabir ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
Referring to a comment by Trinamool leader Humayun Kabir ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, in which he had threatened rival party workers on religious grounds and had been reprimanded by the Election Commission, Chakraborty asked the saffron party workers to “cut them into the ground.” Called for “burying”. ,
“A leader says there are 70 per cent Muslims and 30 per cent Hindus (and) that he will ‘cut’ them and throw them in the Bhagirathi… I thought the Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee) would say something. She didn’t say that… so Now I am saying, we will (cut) them and bury them in the ground…” NDTV quoted Chakraborty as saying.
“I am not the chief minister… but I am saying this,” the BJP leader said, days before the by-elections to six assembly seats next month. We will do anything to win the masnad (throne) of Bengal. It will belong to BJP after the 2026 assembly elections.”
The Bollywood actor was speaking at an event inaugurated by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to launch the BJP membership drive in West Bengal.
“I am saying it again and again… we will do anything (to win the 2026 elections). I am telling Home Minister Amit Shahji sitting here – we will do anything,” Chakraborty said.
The Bollywood actor said, “I say we will cut you and throw you, not in Bhagirathi because she is our mother, but we will throw you in the ground.”
Chakraborty accused the Bengal state government of not allowing the Hindu community to vote.
Mithun’s inflammatory statement came after similar inflammatory remarks by TMC leader Humayun Kabin, who had threatened the Hindu community living in the state while campaigning for the party candidate in Murshidabad, days ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in May 2024.
The TMC leader reportedly said at a rally, “You are 30 per cent (of the people here), but we are 70 per cent… If you think you can demolish mosques and Muslims will sit comfortably … (You are wrong) If I don’t drown you people in Bhagirathi, I will leave politics…”
