Kolkata/IBNS: In a controversial remark, Trinamool Congress MP Nussrat Jahan on Sunday said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers will be beaten with bamboo if they come to seek votes in the upcoming panchayat elections in West Bengal.

Addressing a crowd at her Lok Sabha constituency Basirhat, Nussrat said, "They (BJP) have stopped the funding in the MGNREGA scheme... They give nothing to Bengal when we ask for it. Then why would people of Bengal vote for the BJP?  What have they done for the people of Bengal?

"They won't get a single vote. People of Basirhat will beat them with bamboo when they come to seek votes in this panchayat elections."

Nussrat's meeting was organised as a part of the preparation for TMP MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's 'Trinamoole Nabojowar Yatra' which will be held in the constituency soon.

The state is gearing up for the upcoming panchayat elections which is considered as a stepping stone for the Lok Sabha elections, which will be held next in the country in 2024.

In 2019 General Elections, TMC had suffered a setback in face of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s winning of 18 seats but managed to register a landslide victory with over 200 seats in the 2021 assembly polls.