Bengal BJP candidate in trouble over video

Bharati Ghosh (C), former IPS officer of West Bengal, who joins the BJP in the presence of Ravi Shankar Prasad Union Minister for Law and Justice and Information Technology, senior party leaders (L-R) Mukul Roy, S.S. Ahluwalia and Kailash Vijayvargiya, at the Party headquarters in New Delhi on February 04, 2019. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

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.