A video of BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh allegedly threatening Trinamool activists surfaced on social media on Sunday, creating an uproar.
In the video, Ms. Ghosh, the BJP candidate for the Ghatal constituency in south Bengal, is seen accosting two supposed Trinamool activists. The former IPS officer is first heard saying that the Trinamool activists were “making money and threatening others”.
She then adds: “[They are saying] they would not let others vote. [We] will pull them out of their homes and kill them. I will get 1,000 boys from Uttar Pradesh [to kill them] and you cannot do a thing.” The Trinamool and the CPI (Marxist-Leninist) have appealed to the Election Commission to cancel her nomination.
