New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- Congress MP KC Venugopal on Sunday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party over a purported video showing Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma shooting at people from a religious minority group, saying that there should be "consequences" for such a video with no leniency to be shown in this instance by the courts.

In an X post, KC Venugopal called the video a "poison" spread by the top BJP leadership. Expressing "no hope" that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will condemn the video, he urged the judiciary to take action.

"An official BJP handle posted a video showing the targeted, 'point-blank' murder of minorities. This is nothing but a call to genocide - a dream this fascist regime has harboured since decades. This is ...