Ghatal, May 5: Bharati Ghosh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from West Bengal's Ghatal Lok Sabha Constituency, on Saturday courted controversy by threatening the Trinamool Congress workers. Ghosh, a former IPS officer, said this while poll campaigning at Ghatal constituency after the TMC Supremo warned her to not cross the limits of decency. Babul Supriyo's Car Vandalised Outside Polling Booth in West Bengal's Asansol by Alleged TMC Workers.

"Get inside your houses and do not try to show your smartness here. There will be no place to hide. I will drag you out of your house and beat you like a dog... I will bring over 1,000 men from UP, put them inside your residence and teach you a lesson," the BJP nominee said while campaigning in Ghatal constituency. Mamata Banerjee Accuses Congress of Taking RSS Help in West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections 2019, Rahul Gandhi Hits Back.

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Ghosh, once a close aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, resigned in 2017, after she was transferred from West Midnapore. Soon after her transfer, she was accused of extortion by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The CM reacted to Ghosh’s remarks and asked her to stop threatening people. “If I share with people the text messages you sent me while in service you will be left nowhere. We could have arrested you long ago,” Banerjee said while campaigning for TMC Ghatal candidate and film star Dipak Adhikari alias Dev.

BJP State chief Dilip Ghosh backed the former IPS saying that she said the right thing while the Trinamool Congress has lodged a complaint with Election Commission (EC), demanding cancellation of her candidature.

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