Murshidabad, April 21 -- West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on Monday expressed deep concern over the recent violence in Murshidabad, saying that "Hindus were threatened at gunpoint and forced to chant Islamic religious slogans."

Speaking to ANI, Majumdar said, "Several incidents of this kind happened that day, and not just this, Hindus were held on gunpoint and forced to chant Islamic religious slogans. This will be the future of other Hindus who are staying in other parts of the state, who are thinking this problem is limited to Murshidabad... I want to ask about the whereabouts of the so-called intellectuals of Kolkata."

His remarks came after the BJP IT department in-charge Amit Ma...