"If anyone threatens Trinamool supporters, then our workers will also attack their houses at night," Anubrata Mandal, the Trinamool Congress Birbhum district president said while addressing a party programme at Katwa in Burdwan.
"He (Anubrata) has never said that hands of Congress workers will be chopped off. But, if someone tries to kill a person, then that person will surely try to resist. If someone threatens you what will you do, will you bow out or will you resist," Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy, who also addressed the gathering at Katwa station road, said.
But, an unruffled Mandal said, "Let the police first arrest me."
Though Mandal's hate speech has already kicked off a political storm in the state, Trinamool Congress leadership has stood by him.
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