Police complaint filed against Paresh Rawal for ‘anti-Bengali’ remark

Kolkata : State secretary of CPI(M) in West Bengal, Md Salim, has filed a complaint against actor Paresh Rawal here on Friday for the latter’s viral comments about Bengalis while campaigning for the BJP in Gujarat.
In the complaint letter, Salim said that such speech on public domain has been made to provoke riots and destroy the harmony between the Bengali community and other communities across the country and cause public mischief.
According to Salim, the innuendo and insinuation made in the same speech by Rawal as regards all Bengalis is bound to arouse feelings of hatred and ill will among other communities against Bengalis.
“In fact, the comments made on social media with regard to the said provocative post show that the said video is generating a lot of adverse opinion about Bengalis,” Salim’s letter read.
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He also requested the officer-in-charge of Taltala police station to consider his letter as an FIR.