Mithun Chakraborty
Kolkata Police quiz actor-BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty over controversial poll speech
Kolkata/IBNS: Actor-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mithun Chakraborty is being quizzed by the Kolkata Police on Wednesday over his controversial election speech.
The actor, who turned 71 on Wednesday, was questioned virtually by the police.
The police allege that his speech had led to the post-poll violence in the state.
After Chakraborty moved the Calcutta High Court to get the First Information Report (FIR) against him cancelled, the court had asked an investigating officer to quiz him virtually.
Chakraborty, who was the star campaigner for the BJP in the 2021 West Bengal elections, had controversially uttered one of his film dialogues, which allegedly incited hate, during a mega rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Brigade Parade Ground here.
"Marbo ekhane, lash porbe shoshane (Will beat you here and your body will fall at the crematorium)," he had said.
The Hindi film superstar, who took a fresh plunge into politics in 2021, pleaded that he had only repeated a dialogue from his film, not intending to mean it literally.
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