Police complaint lodged against WB BJP chief for 'shoot and kill' remark

15:58 January 14

Police complaint lodged against WB BJP chief for 'shoot and kill' remark

Kolkata:A police complaint has been filed against BJP state president Dilip Ghosh for threatening to shoot and kill CAA protesters in the state of West Bengal. He had earlier courted controversy by threatening to shoot those involved in damaging public property "like the same way in Uttar Pradesh".

According to reports, TMC secretary Krishnendu Banerjee filed a complaint against Ghosh at the Ranaghat police station on Tuesday.

Addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Nadia district, Ghosh came down heavily on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee "for not opening fire and ordering lathi charge" on those destroying railway property and public transport during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in the state in December last year.

"Is it the father's property of those who are setting public property on fire? How can they destroy government property built on tax payers' money!" Ghosh had said.

He had said, "The governments of Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Karnataka did the right thing by opening fire on these anti-national elements (during anti-CAA protests)."
Ghosh also called for identifying those "sabotaging the interests" of Hindu Bengalis.

He claimed that there are two crore "Muslim infiltrators" in the country. "One crore alone is in West Bengal and Mamata Banerjee is trying to protect them," he alleged.