Haridwar, Jan. 1 -- Amid the mounting chaos over a Bangladeshi cricket player being selected for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sangeet Som called Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan "a traitor" and accused him of investing money in players "from a country working against India".

He noted the repeated violence incidents against religious minorities in Bangladesh. He added that Mustafizur Rahman (the player) would not be able to play in the IPL tournament.

"The way Hindus are being persecuted in Bangladesh, women and girls are being raped, their homes are being burned, and anti-India slogans are being chanted there. Despite all this, traitors like Shah Rukh Khan, I'm calling him a traitor because everything h...