Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh sent a legal notice to Trinamul Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday, asking him to publicly apologise for the comments he had made at a rally near here on Sunday.
At the meeting in Satgachhia, the Diamond Harbour MP had referred to Ghosh as a goonda (goon) and accused him of having links with the mafia in Bengal.
The legal notice sent by Ghosh through his lawyer Partha Ghosh requests Abhishek to withdraw his remarks within three days “in the same manner in which they were made and published, along with an unconditional apology”.
The BJP accuses the young MP of having links with drug and coal mafia and calls him bhaipo or bhatija (nephew), a reference to his relation with chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
While addressing the meeting on Sunday, Abhishek attacked the BJP for “being afraid” to name him. “I will take names…Amit Shah is an outsider. Kailash Vijayvargiya is an outsider. Dilip Ghosh is a goon…I dare them to do so.”
Ghosh admitted a legal notice had been sent on his behalf to Abhishek. “Legally one can be put in jail for some time…Law is a formality. He should’ve had some sense. It wasn’t courteous of him to use such language against someone who is an MP and the president of a party’s state unit,” Ghosh said.
