Raipur: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra has been booked for alleged objectionable remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
An FIR was registered against the Lok Sabha MP at Mana police station, in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur, based on a complaint filed by a local resident named Gopal Samanto.
Moitra has been booked under sections 196 (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc.) and 197 (imputations prejudicial to national integration) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Moitra sparked a row after allegedly saying that if Shah fails to stop infiltration from Bangladesh, “the first thing you should do is cut Amit Shah’s head and put it on your table.”
The TMC lawmaker made the objectionable comments while speaking to the media on the sidelines of an event in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Thursday.
Stating that Moitra’s comments were unconstitutional and objectionable, the complainant alleged a large number of Bangladeshi refugees settled in Raipur’s Mana camp area in 1971, and that her remarks had created fear among them as it could provoke anger from other communities.
The BJP has demanded an apology from her.
“Her statement is condemnable. Her membership has been revoked once. Now, will she want to repeat this again? She used such words against the country’s Home Minister; what status do such people have? What kind of people does Mamata Banerjee have?” BJP leader and Lok Sabha MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed TMC MP, saying that the “unparliamentary and objectionable remark” used by her is “inexcusable and highly condemnable.”
The controversy spiralled after BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri used an expletive to attack Moitra in a post on X, which was later deleted.
Sharing a screenshot of Bidhuri’s post, TMC wrote on X, “The vile slurs hurled by @rameshbidhuri against a woman MP are not an aberration, they are the political dialect of @BJP4India. MISOGYNY, HATRED, and GUTTER-LEVEL ABUSE have been normalised under Modi-Shah’s leadership.”
