‘We will cut you up and throw you’: Mithun Chakraborty at BJP rally
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New Delhi: Bollywood actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty said that the party will do anything to come to power in West Bengal, adding that the state ‘will belong to the BJP after the 2026 Assembly election’.
The 74-year-old added to the frenzied political situation of the state issuing threats in response to Trinamool's Humayun Kabir’s threat to rival workers on religious grounds before the Lok Sabha polls, which the Election Comission censured.
Referring to Humayun Kabir, the Bollywood actor said ‘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 would say something. She didn't... so now I am saying, we will chop them (up) and bury them in the ground…’
Union Home Minister Amit Shah was in attendance when the actor blurted out that ‘We will do anything to win the masnad (throne) of Bengal’.
Amit Shah felicitated the National Award-winning actor for winning the Dadasaheb Phalke Award on October 8.
Chakraborty went on with his threats asserting ‘I say we will cut you up and throw you’ but will not throw in the river Bhagirathi calling it ‘mother’, adding that ‘we will throw you in the ground’.
Just as the actor was issuing threats, Shah and other senior BJP leaders were reportedly looking on with smiles.
Chakraborty accused the Bengal state government of not allowing the Hindus to cast votes.
Humayun Kabir in May 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...I will leave politics if I don't drown you people in the Bhagirathi’.
Kabir was campaigning for TMC candidate in Lok Sabha election in Murshidabad district.
Trinamool Congress General Secretary Jay Prakash Majumdar dismissed Chakraborty as an insignificant figure, saying that ‘No one takes him seriously as a political leader’.
