Guwahati, Aug. 17: A cartoonist from Assam, Nituparna Rajbongshi, has approached police after receiving threat calls over a cartoon he posted on Facebook.

One of his cartoons criticised the Centre over recent deaths of over 70 children in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Rajbongshi posted the cartoon on Tuesday when one of his Facebook friends, Anindya Pranay Bharati, allegedly threatened him by commenting, "You stupid Nituparna... Somebody shoot him dead...".

Rajbongshi last evening filed a complaint at Sorbhog police station in lower Assam's Barpeta district, where he stays.

"On the 71st Independence Day I had drawn the cartoon portraying the current situation of our country. Every day poor farmers commit suicide and various crimes take place in different parts of the country. No one is safe today. But the government tries to convince people that our country is developing day by day," Rajbongshi told The Telegraph .

In the cartoon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen wearing a mask and getting oxygen from a cylinder ma-rked as corporate. "Through the cartoon I wanted to show that the government is working with the help of the corporate while the life of the people has become hell. I had drawn the oxygen mask to symbolise the Gorakhpur incident. The incident took place at a time the country is said to be becoming a superpower."

"I filed a complaint against the person. I also mailed the complaint to the director-general of Assam police and the cyber crime branch. I have also come to know that Satra Mukti Sangram Samiti has filed a complaint on this incident at Dispur police station. After filing the complaint, additional deputy commissioner of Barpeta Pulak Patgiri called me and promised an investigation," Rajbongshi said.