Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Sunday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah over a BJP spokesperson’s controversial remarks targeting Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi during a televised debate.

In his letter on Sunday, Venugopal said a failure to act against the BJP panelist swiftly will be judged as complicity and normalisation of violence against Gandhi.

Venugopal said a “chilling and heinous” death threat to Rahul Gandhi by Printu Mahadev, a BJP spokesperson and former ABVP leader.

Appearing for the BJP on News18 Kerala channel, Mahadev said during a debate on the Ladakh violence that “Rahul Gandhi will be shot in the chest’’.

“In a brazen act of incitement of violence, Mr Mahadev openly declared that ‘Rahul Gandhi will be shot in the chest’. This is

See Full Page