The Bidhannagar Police filed an FIR on Wednesday against actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty, for delivering a “provocative” speech during a BJP event in West Bengal last month.
In May, while campaigning in Murshidabad, Trinamool Congress leader Humayun Kabir had threatened rival party workers. “If you think you can demolish mosques and Muslims will sit back and relax, you are wrong. I will leave politics, if you people don't drown in the Bhagirathi," he said.
During the BJP programme held in Bidhannagar on October 27, in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Chakraborty responded to Kabir's comments saying, “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 the chief minister would say something. She didn't. So now I am saying, we will chop them up and bury them in the ground,” he said.
"I am not the chief minister but I am saying this. We will do anything to win the masnad of Bengal. It will belong to the BJP after the 2026 assembly election."
Many reacted to his statement, urging the police to arrest the Dadasaheb Phalke Award recepient, and Shah.
Investigation is on, according to reports.