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Chakraborty, who has received India’s highest film honour Dadasaheb Phalke Award this year, made the comments in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who felicitated the actor at the event.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah with party leader Mithun Chakraborty at the BJP’s membership drive, in Kolkata. (PTI)
Actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty on Sunday responded with a message of violence against the controversial statement made by Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Humayun Kabir before the Lok Sabha polls. Referring to Kabir’s comment, in which he had threatened rival party workers on religious grounds, and was censured by the Election Commission, Chakraborty called on the BJP workers to “chop them up and bury them underground.”
“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 as reported by news agency PTI.
During the campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls, Kabir 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…”
West Bengal is witnessing a heated political atmosphere, ahead of the by-polls for six assembly seats next month, with leaders of the ruling TMC and opposition BJP locking horns and trading barbs against each other.
Will Ensure Mansad Will Be Of BJP in 2026: Chakraborty
Chakraborty further asserted that the saffron party would do anything to dethrone West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the TMC in the 2026 Assembly elections and ensure that the ‘masnad’ (throne) will be of the BJP.
“I am not the Chief Minister… but I am saying this. We will do anything to win the masnad (throne) of Bengal… it will belong to the BJP after the 2026 Assembly election,” the 74-year-old leader raged.
Chakraborty, who has received India’s highest film honour Dadasaheb Phalke Award this year, made the comments in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who felicitated the actor at the event.
“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.
After the felicitation, the former Rajya Sabha MP called upon the BJP functionaries to ensure one crore membership in the campaign that will last till November 30. He said that he will join the party’s membership campaign in the state in November.
Stating that he had campaigned for the party for 37 days in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Chakraborty said that he was pained at the results in which BJP had come down from 18 seats in 2019 to 12 out of 42 constituencies in West Bengal.
He also cautioned that no one should try to browbeat BJP’s voters into not casting their votes in the next assembly elections in the state and called upon the booth-level workers of the saffron party to resist any such attempt.
TMC Hits Back
Trinamool Congress’s general secretary Jay Prakash Majumdar hit back at Chakraborty, asserting that the BJP did not take him seriously and accused him of stoking violence with his remarks.
“No one takes him seriously as a political leader and his dialogues. The leader whose comments he spoke about was censored. In the presence of Amit Shah, he is talking about violence. Can he be censored?”
(With inputs from PTI)
