Will behead pro-Pakistan people: Dilip Ghosh, West Bengal BJP chief

SURI: West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh has threatened to chop off "six inches from the top" of those raising ' Pakistan zindabad' slogans.

He said they will be "lowered by six feet" while threatening those helping "extremists and terrorists", including actors, singers, politicians and educationists, would be "kicked away to Bangladesh".

"Friends you should not forget that the Centre no longer has a Congress government. This government does not mumble. Now there is one by (Narendra) Modi. So he is blasting away anyone who is either a Maoist or a terrorist," Ghosh said after a meeting on Wednesday with Birbhum district magistrate against the backdrop of violence in Ilambazar over a Facebook post denigrating religious beliefs.

"Bodies are falling. They are being counted and taken away. Earlier, when our security forces, BSF, CISF, RPF and Army were slain, we used to condole them. Today it is the opposite. The same BSF, CISF, Army and police have turned their weapons."

He said the government at the Centre does not have its hands folded. "It responds to bullets with bombs. Pakistan has gone quiet, Bangladesh will also be quiet. And those touts and sycophants who toe their line will be made quiet by us." Ghosh said those who believe they will use "terrorists and extremists" for votes were living in a fool's paradise and added BJP would prevent "Bengal from turning into Afghanistan or Syria"