Bengal Elections: Mithun Chakraborty Speech Incites Post-Election Violence, Questioned By Kolkata Police

Mithun Chakraborty, a star campaigner for the BJP in the April-May poll, was virtually interrogated by the Kolkata Police in connection with a charge filed against him for a speech he gave on March 7 after joining the party.

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16 Jun 2021, 8:57 am

In a controversy over one of his statements during the Bengal election campaign, actor and BJP politician Mithun Chakraborty was questioned by police in Bengal today.

The 71-year-old actor was virtually questioned by the Kolkata Police in connection with a charge filed against him over a speech he gave on March 7 after joining the BJP. According to a First Information Report (FIR), the speech aided in inciting post-election violence in Bengal on May 2 that gave Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress a landslide victory.

Mithun Chakraborty had filed an application with the Calcutta High Court to get the FIR dismissed. The court then ordered a virtual interrogation of the actor by an investigation officer.

In his remarks, the actor said that he only recited film dialogues that were not supposed to be literal.

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The police case involves a line from his 2006 film "MLA Fatakeshto": "Marbo ekhaney...lash porbay shoshaney ('i will thrash you here. Your body will be found at the crematorium."

He also recited the following lines in his widely applauded speech, "Ami joldhorao noi, bele borao noi... ami ekta cobra, ek chobol-ei chhobi (Don't mistake me for a harmless snake, I am a pure cobra, one strike and you become a photograph."

In some districts of Bengal, there were fights between Trinamool and BJP workers following the election results.

At least 16 people were killed in the violence, according to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

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