Overview

• Abdur Rahim Bakshi, TMC Malda district president and MLA, threatened to pour acid into BJP chief whip Shankar Ghosh’s mouth if he again labels Bengali migrant workers as “Bangladeshis” or “Rohingyas.”
• The warning was delivered at a Saturday protest in Malda over alleged abuses of Bengali‑speaking migrants, where Bakshi also urged a social boycott of the BJP and the removal of party flags.
• BJP leaders denounced the remarks as intimidation, with Malda MP Khagen Murmu saying the comments reflect TMC panic ahead of the 2026 state elections.
• Bakshi later told reporters he “did not make any undemocratic statement,” although he has previously been reported to have issued violent threats against political opponents.
• The video surfaced days after a raucous September 4 assembly sitting in which Speaker Biman Banerjee suspended Shankar Ghosh and other BJP MLAs, marshals intervened, and assembly sources said two marshals were hospitalised.