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TMC MLA Sabitri Mitra in a purported video described Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other BJP leaders as Duryodhan and Dushashan from the Mahabharata.
"If anyone raises the demand for a separate Cooch Behar state, he/she will not have his/her knee intact. If anyone takes out a rally supporting Cooch Behar statehood, we will break the knee of that person," Mr Guha said.
Trinamool Congress MLA Udayan Guha has courted controversy by threatening to break the knee of those demanding separate statehood for Cooch Behar district of West Bengal. The controversial Dinhata legislator, who had in the past threatened to send musclemen for BJP leaders if they committed "atrocities" on TMC workers, made the latest remark while canvassing for a ruling party
After CM left the venue, elected representatives of the saffron camp, including Union minister Nisith Pramanik, tried to stoke sentiments of the community
The 36-year-old MP, the youngest minister in the Narendra Modi government, won't be contesting it himself, but it's his home turf that is at stake.