Congress general secretary and PAC chairperson K C Venugopal on Sunday has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleging a “cold, calculated and chilling death threat” against Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi by BJP spokesperson Printu Mahadev during a live television debate.

In his letter dated September 28, the Lok Sabha MP Venugopal said that Mahadev openly declared that “Rahul Gandhi will be shot in the chest,” describing it as “neither a slip of the tongue, nor careless hyperbole. It is a cold, calculated and chilling death threat against the Leader of the Opposition and one of India’s foremost political leaders.”

Venugopal warned that such words “not only place the life of Rahul Gandhi in immediate danger, but also undermine the Constitution, the rule of law, and the basic sec

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