Union minister Shantanu Thakur, who is contesting the Lok Sabha Election for the second time as a BJP candidate from Bongaon in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, has claimed to have received a threat letter from terror outfit, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), over the NRC.
He made the claim about the threat after he was accused by the Trinamul Congress of attacking it's Rajya Sabha MP Mamata Bala Thakur’s house at Thakurbari in Thakurnagar of Bongaon with others to take its control forcibly on Sunday evening.
Ms Thakur is the daughter-in-law of late Matua matriarch Binapani Devi, revered as ‘Boroma’ to the community of Hindu migrants, and is also the aunt of Shantanu. She later lodged an FIR against him of assaulting her and her daughter at the Gaighata police station.
On Monday Mr Thakur rejected his aunt's allegations amid tensions at Thakurbari and revealed the threat letter which was drafted in Bengali, dated on February 7 and delivered via a registered post from Hadipur in Deganga of the district to his ancestral residence.
The LeT letter threatened to “blow up Thakurbari and burn the country” if the NRC is implemented in West Bengal and the Muslims bear the brunt of it. Mr Thakur later blamed the TMC for sheltering terror outfits in the state and over the threat to him.
Drawing union home minister Amit Shah's attention he alleged, “The chief minister of our state is the biggest shame for the way such banned organizations have been active here.”
