Mamata Banerjee calls Mithun Chakraborty 'traitor from Bengal', actor feels CM is ‘mentally unstable’: Report

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticised actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty for joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While speaking during a public rally in Raiganj, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief called Chakraborty a “big traitor from Bengal". She accused him of "bowing his head in the RSS office just to save his son".

"During the elections, I had made a , but I didn't know that another had bowed his head in the RSS office just to save his son," Banerjee was quoted by news agency ANI as saying.

She was quoted by the Hindustan Times as saying, “If you remember his son was booked. Police had gone to the wedding to investigate. He got scared and went straight to the RSS office in Mumbai and said that he was a BJP sevak. Those who can fight, I consider only them as humans."

earlier. He had switched to the . His son's wedding was called off on July 8, 2018, after a team of police arrived at the wedding venue to investigate a rape case against the groom, the Times of India reported. He got married on July 10 after getting bail.

Mithun Chakraborty criticised Mamata Banerjee for calling him ‘a traitor’ in her public meeting in Raiganj. According to reports, he said that the growing number of BJP supporters has deeply affected the Chief Minister.

"He retorted to the CM’s remarks stating that he was not a traitor but a soldier," Siliguri Times . Chakraborty reportedly said that he believed the CM was ‘mentally unstable’.

BJP leader and actor Mithun Chakraborty held a roadshow in West Bengal’s Siliguri as part of the party’s campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

The war of words between Mithun Chakraborty and Mamata Banerjee took place just ahead of the first phase of voting for the 2024 Lok