Overview

• The TMC MP’s comments, made in Bengali in West Bengal’s Nadia district while criticizing the Centre on alleged Bangladesh infiltration, included a call to behead the Union home minister and put his head on the table.
• A BJP worker, Sandeep Majumdar, lodged a complaint at Kotwali police station in Krishnanagar, and local police said they are looking into the matter.
• BJP leaders condemned the statement as hate speech and demanded that the Trinamool Congress distance itself and act against Moitra.
• News agencies, including PTI, reported that they could not independently verify the authenticity of the circulating video of the remarks.
• Moitra responded on X by describing the phrase as an ‘Off With His Head’ metaphor and accused the BJP of deliberately amplifying the clip.