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BJP seeks Mamata nephew's arrest for 'gouging eyes' remark
Kolkata, June 23
Demanding West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee's immediate arrest,
the BJP on Tuesday said it has filed a police complaint against him for
threatening to "gouge out eyes and chop off hands" of Trinamool's
opponents.
State Bharatiya Janata Party president Rahul Sinha
also said the party on Wednesday will move the Calcutta High Court
seeking immediate legal action against Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek
Banerjee who made the aggressive remarks addressing a party rally in
Basirhat in North 24-Parganas on Monday.
"We feel Abhishek should
be immediately arrested for the remarks. We have filed a first
information report (FIR) before both the Kolkata and Basirhat police,
seeking immediate legal action against him," Sinha told media persons
here.
"His words 'gouging eyes and chopping off hands' are
spurring violence and we feel they are directed at the BJP because the
Trinamool is steadily getting wary of our rise in Bengal," Sinha said.
"Tomorrow
(Wednesday) we will file a petition before the Calcutta High Court,
urging immediate legal action against Abhishek," he added.
"So
long as Mamata Banerjee is there, whoever dares to glower at the people
of Bengal, we can gouge their eyes out and throw them on the road. If
hands are raised, we can chop off the hands," Abhishek said, addressing
party workers in the run-up to the July 21 Martyr's Day Rally.
The
Trinamool observes July 21 as the Martyrs' Day in the memory of 13
people who were shot dead in 1993 in police firing on a Youth Congress
rally led by Mamata Banerjee, then a Youth Congress leader.
Political parties, including the Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), have condemned the remarks.