IPS officer-turned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from West Midnapore’s Ghatal constituency, Bharati Ghosh, on Saturday was seen in a video threatening some villagers of Keshpur in West Midnapore.
She told the men – Trinamool Congress supporters and workers sitting outside their homes – that she would drag them out of their homes and beat them up “like dogs”.
Ghosh added that this would continue for over a year, even after the elections, and these men wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. She also threatened to bring 1,000 men from Uttar Pradesh to do the job.
In the video, Bharati Ghosh is seen in a saffron robe walking around with some party colleagues and security personnel. She is then seen driving away some local men from where they were sitting, and she is threatening them to go inside their homes and to lock themselves in, else she would beat them up like dogs. Later, Ghosh told the media that she was “compelled” to do this as Trinamool Congress was resorting to violence.
Ghosh, an IPS officer, took voluntary retirement and joined the BJP recently. She was once the police superintendent of West Midnapore and was known to be close to chief minister Mamata Banerjee. However, later, she fell out with Banerjee.
Later in the day, the chief minister, who was in the district on an election campaign said without naming Ghosh that one should know where to draw the line. Banerjee was campaigning in the Ghatal constituency with Trinamool Congress candidate, actor Dev, and said her party’s candidate could never stoop so low.
The matter has reached the Election Commission, with Trinamool Congress lodging a complaint with the chief electoral officer of the state.
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