An FIR was registered against actor and BJP MP Mithun Chakraborty for allegedly making a provocative speech recently in Bengal. The speech was made at a BJP event in North 24 Parganas where Mithun said that the BJP would emerge victorious in 2026 and urged party workers to resist voter intimidation.
The BJP has dubbed the FIR as being politically motivated. It may be mentioned here that an FIR had been filed against Mithun Chakraborty in 2021 for allegedly inciting poll violence during the West Bengal elections. The Calcutta high court had later quashed the case, ruling that the dialogues in his speech were “fundamentally funny, hilarious and entertaining and didn’t constitute hate speech”.