It may be recalled that Bidhannagar Police recently filed a case on charges that Mithun Chakraborty, a veteran actor and a BJP leader of North 24 Parganas district, had made a provocative speech at a recent party meeting.
The event was said to have happened on October 27 at a meeting of the BJP at the Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC), Salt Lake, where Chakraborty was recording a speech containing statements seen today as offending.
The FIR was registered at Bidhananagar South police station, where Chakraborty made comments during his speech stating that the ‘masnad’ of West Bengal would be with the BJP in the 2026 Assembly elections. Stressing this vision, Chakraborty said the BJP would go to the extent of doing everything to see this realized, words some people saw as provocative.
Chakraborty’s remarks also contained a rebuttal to comments by TMC legislator Humayun Kabir, who was accused of spewing communal sentiments against the BJP supporters in the previous polls.
Chakraborty urged the booth-level workers not to allow anyone to try and threaten BJP voters not to vote in the forthcoming Assembly elections. His comments have since raised eyebrows, a move opponents believed could stoke political tension in the highly charged West Bengal political arena.
BJP’s membership drive in West Bengal was made official at the gathering, which was also carried out and presided over by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, among several others. Shah’s presence signalled the BJP’s readiness to establish itself more firmly in West Bengal before the 2026 polls; this is a state where competitiveness has always been steeped in aggression.
Chakraborty, who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement in cinema earlier this year, is a prominent member of the BJP, and his words have boosted the party’s poll campaign.
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