By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Updated: June 24, 2015 12:42 am
Courting a fresh controversy, Trinamool Congress MP and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee has publicly threatened to “chop off the hands and gouge out eyes” of those who dared to challenge the ruling party in West Bengal, following which the Opposition BJP Tuesday got an FIR registered against him. The BJP will also move Calcutta High Court on Wednesday over the issue.
“No one, other than Mamata Banerjee had raised voice on behalf of the common people of the state. As long as Mamata Banerjee is here, if you dare to show your eyes, we will gouge them out and throw them on the road. If you raise your hand, we will severe it from your body….But we must keep in mind that in a democracy, it is the common man who will have the last word,” Abhishek, the Diamond Harbour MP, had said Monday at a meeting at Basirhat North 24-Parganas district in the presence of senior party leaders.