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Another video of Tapas shows him urging villagers to kill CPI-M workers

| | Jul 05, 2014, at 12:15 am
Kolkata, July 4 (IBNS): Creating more embarrassment for the party, a new video has emerged showing Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Tapas Paul urging villagers to keep sharp weapons with them in order to "kill" Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers.
"No CPI-M workers should stay here. If they come here, be ready with an axe or big knife and kill them. I will see who puts you behind the bars," Paul was seen in a video urging villagers in Nadia district of West Bengal.
 
Earlier on Thursday, even after facing severe criticisms over Paul's 'rape' remark, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee  said media is exaggerating a trivial issue.
 
"Now-a-days, good work is never publicised. Someone made a small comment and  does something small, or even if somebody does not do it, media exaggerates the matter," Banerjee said at a public gathering without taking Tapas Paul's name.
 
She accused the media of carrying a "planted campaign of misinformation" against them.
 
"In this situation, we have to protect and defend ourselves," she said.
 
The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday said an unconditional apology by Paul, who threatened in a village the opposition CPI-M women with rape by his boys, has been accepted by the party, effectively letting off the actor-turned-politician facing a nationwide outrage for his remarks.
 
"The party has accepted his unconditional apology which he did because the party believes that was written in right spirit," party Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien told reporters.
 
He said the apology in tone, manner and content was in right spirit and "the matter ends there."
 
O'Brien said Paul tendered the unconditional apology in a letter to the party, women of West Bengal and media and everyone else.
 
While a nationwide outcry has followed demanding punishment of Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul who in a public meeting in a village in West Bengal has been caught on camera threatening women of the opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) with rape by his boys, the Union Home Ministry has sought a report from the state on the action taken.
 
He also threatened to kill people himself with a firearm.  
 
A second video also emerged on Paul's another speech where he also threatened to kill and provoked party members to slit the throat of opposition.

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