Renowned Bengali singer Lagnajita Chakraborty, celebrated for her soulful rendition of tracks like 'Basanto Eshe Geche', encountered a shocking disruption during her scheduled live concert at a private school in Bhagwanpur, East Midnapore district, on Saturday evening when an audience member suddenly invaded the stage and subjected her to verbal abuse and threats of physical violence over her choice of song.

The perpetrator, identified as Mehboob Mallik who serves as a member of the school's governing body according to the singer's account, allegedly charged onto the performance area midway through Chakraborty's heartfelt rendering of the widely loved spiritual devotional song 'Jago Maa' dedicated to the mother goddess, creating chaos in front of the gathered crowd.

Mallik reportedly shouted derogatory and abusive language at the performer while demanding she immediately cease the Hindu devotional piece, insisting vocally that enough songs invoking 'Jago Maa' had been performed and commanding her to switch to what he termed a 'secular' composition instead, escalating the confrontation to the point where Chakraborty feared an imminent physical assault.

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In her detailed written complaint lodged with authorities, the singer described feeling deeply threatened as Mallik attempted to approach her aggressively on stage, forcing the event organizers and security to intervene while the initial refusal by the local Bhagwanpur police station's officer-in-charge to register the case only compounded the distress until higher officials stepped in to override the delay.

The incident swiftly drew political fire as the Bharatiya Janata Party highlighted Mallik's alleged affiliation with the ruling Trinamool Congress, framing the onstage interference as symptomatic of rising intolerance toward Hindu cultural and religious expressions in West Bengal, with senior police assurances that Mallik's arrest would be followed by internal accountability measures against officers who initially neglected their duty.

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