2 weeks Ago By Khushi Patel
New Delhi: Actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty sparked a massive row after he 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 said "we will chop them (up) and bury you in the ground". West Bengal is witnessing election fever as six Assembly seats are scheduled to go to polls next month and ruling Trinamool and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party are leaving no stone unturned to woo the voters. "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. 'We Will Do Anything' "I am not the Chief Minister..
. but I am saying this," the 74-year-old raged, "We will do anything to win the masnad (throne) of Bengal..
. it will belong to the BJP after the 2026 Assembly election." Union Home Minister Amit Shah was also present at the event where he felicitated the National Award-winning actor for being presented with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award on October 8.
"I am saying it again and again...
we will do anything (to win the 2026 election) ...
anything. I am saying this with Home Minister Amit Shahji sitting here - we will do anything," he warned ominously. Chakraborty repeated this threat, calling the river "our mother" and declaring, "I say we will cut you up and throw you, not in the Bhagirathi because that is our mother, but we will throw you in the ground.
" He also accused the Bengal state government of not allowing the Hindu community to cast votes. Humayun Kabir's 'Will Drown You' Threat His remarks come after Kabir's equally shocking comment in May, as he was campaigning for the party's Lok Sabha election candidate in Murshidabad district At a rally he reportedly said, "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 back and relax..
. (you are wrong). I will leave politics if I don't drown you people in the Bhagirathi.
.." The actor - speaking at a membership drive - then called on BJP supporters to join the party's karyakartas.
"We want those people who will fight...
who can stand up and say, 'Shoot me...
let me see how many bullets you have'," he said, taking a swipe at the Trinamool over multiple incidents of pre- and post-poll violence in the state, "But we don't want those who join for money." Chakraborty then also offered up a second violent threat. "If you cut down one fruit from our trees.
.. we will cut down four of yours," he said.
In response, the Trinamool General Secretary Jay Prakash Majumdar dismissed Chakraborty as an inconsequential figure. "No one takes him seriously as a political leader..
. the leader (the Trinamool's Kabir) whose comment he spoke about was censured (by the Election Commission). But now, in the presence of Amit Shah, Mithun Chakraborty is saying this.
.. will be also be censured now?" Majumdar asked.
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