India, Sept. 7 -- A Trinamool Congress MLA has allegedly threatened to pour acid into the mouth of a BJP leader in Bengal.

The alleged threat by TMC MLA Abdur Rahim Bakshi was made against BJP leader Shankar Ghosh during an event in protest against "atrocities against Bengali-speaking migrant workers".

Bakshi, who is also the Malda district Trinamool Congress (TMC) president, made the statements on Saturday evening while referring to Ghosh's past statements made in the assembly calling migrant workers from Bengal as "Rohingyas" or "Bangladeshis".

"The one who shamelessly says that the 30 lakh migrant workers of Bengal who work outside are not Bengalis... they are Rohingyas, they are Bangladeshis. He shouted this.If I hear this from you...