TMC demands immediate arrest of UP's BJP youth leader who issued death threat to Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA: In a sharp reaction to Uttar Pradesh's BJP youth wing leader’s offer for a bounty of Rs 11 lakh to anyone who beheads West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress demanded his immediate arrest and expulsion from the party.

Downplaying the death-threat, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said, "If you want to abuse me , you can continue doing that. The more you would do this, the more i would be loved by people." Banerjee was speaking in a public meeting in Murshidabad.

However her party colleagues challenged the BJP leader to come to Bengal and say what he said in UP. "We are challenging the BJP man to come here and say what he wants to. We demand his immediate arrest," said Partha Chatterjee, secretary general of TMC.