Sikandrabad Nagar Palika chairman Dr Pradeep Dixit has expressed regret over his controversial remarks, announcing a ₹1 crore reward to behead Trinamool Congress MP Saayoni Ghosh.
Dixit said he does not believe in violence and that his remarks were made in anguish after seeing a social media post that he believed insulted Lord Shiva.
He said he later came to know that the social media post involving Ghosh was from 2015 and that the MP had already expressed regret over it.
Ghosh had taken to social media to express her shock and outrage over the public announcement offering a ₹1 crore reward for her beheading, issued by none other than a Nagar Palika chairman and a BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh's Sikandrabad.
She questioned the BJP leadership, including West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, on whether declaring a bounty to behead a woman, a sitting Member of Parliament, was the true idea of 'Nari Shakti Vandan' in New Bharat.
