A video confirmed Babul Supriyo purportedly slapping the person (File)
Kolkata: Union minister Babul Supriyo who’s contesting the West Bengal meeting election from the Tollygunje constituency, has courted controversy by allegedly slapping a person inside a celebration workplace in Kolkata.
A video, which went viral Monday, confirmed the singer-turned BJP chief purportedly slapping the person who had repeatedly requested him to begin critical campaigning on the sector as a substitute of posing earlier than TV cameras and giving bytes.
Mr Supriyo later claimed that he didn’t “slap him however solely gestured to take action”.
The alleged incident befell in a BJP get together workplace at Ranikuthi within the Tollygunge constituency the place the Union minister of state for setting, forest & local weather change attended a operate on the event of Doljatra competition on Sunday.
When the person suggested him to begin critical campaigning, Mr Supriyo initially requested him to maintain quiet however he continued to make comparable feedback, BJP sources stated.
At one level of time, the minister was seen slapping him as soon as.
“With individuals coming from one get together to a different, there may be some Bibhisons and a few Mir Jafars (traitors). Some individuals are undoubtedly attempting to create disturbances. I stored my cool regardless of his provocations,” Mr Supriyo instructed reporters.
Nevertheless, he didn’t elaborate if he thought of the youth as somebody despatched by the Trinamool Congress or a ”Bibhison” or ”Mir Jafar” inside the get together.
The id of the youth shouldn’t be recognized.
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated that the get together wished to know whether or not the person slapped by Mr Supriyo was “an outsider of the Trinamool Congress or a Bibhison (somebody of the BJP)”.
“These accepting individuals from different events with open arms shouldn’t make such feedback,” he stated.
BJP state president Dilip Ghosh stated, “Babul might need touched the person on the warmth of the second however he didn’t intend to hit him or hurt him bodily.”
