TMC MP Mahua Moitra booked in second FIR for remarks about Amit Shah

A first information report has been registered against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur for making allegedly objectionable remarks about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, reported PTI on Sunday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party had earlier filed a complaint against Moitra in West Bengal’s Krishnanagar for saying that Shah’s head should be cut off for allowing undocumented immigration into India. The Trinamool Congress said that the remark, made on Thursday, was not meant to be taken literally.

The case in Raipur was registered based on a complaint by Gopal Samanto, a resident, on Saturday, according to The Indian Express.

The Trinamool Congress MP has been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections pertaining to promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language (196) and imputations prejudicial to national integration (197), Raipur Superintendent of Police Lal Umed Singh was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Speaking to reporters in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Thursday, the Krishnanagar MP alleged that Shah had failed to “check infiltrators” at the borders.

Noting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly claimed that undocumented immigrants from other countries were entering India and taking away land, Moitra asked whose responsibility it was to protect the borders and stop them from entering.

“If we don’t have anyone to protect...

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