The claim by an actress-politician that Mithun Chakraborty's purse went missing during a rally at Dhanbad in Jharkhand was rubbished by the BJP, saying it was only lost and found later.
This incident occurred when Chakraborty had gone to the Nirsa assembly constituency to hold a rally in support of BJP candidate Aparna Sengupta.
"There was no such incident of pickpocketing. The purse was misplaced and later found," BJP's Dhanbad district president Ghanshyam Grover told PTI.
However, a video of the rally went viral on social media in which a BJP leader was heard saying on the microphone, "Whosoever has taken Mithun-da's purse, please return it. This is not the culture of Nirsa." PTI could not independently verify the video.
