New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari while campaigning for the West Bengal polls threatened the livelihood of migrant Muslim workers, warning that they would have to return to BJP-ruled states for work after the elections.Adhikari, who is the leader of the opposition in the Bengal assembly, has made the remarks at a time when there are widespread concerns of mass voter disenfranchisement, especially of those from the Muslim community, in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.Targeting the Muslim community in his speech, Adhikari said that there were over 30,000 migrant workers from Nandigram who were employed in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Odisha and said they “could not afford to make a mistake”.“There are 30,000 migrant workers… In Gujarat, 1,100 Muslim young men from Nandigram reside; 800 in Odisha; and 3,300 in Maharashtra. Whose government is there in Odisha? Whose government is there in Maharashtra? Whose govt is in Gujarat? BJP’s! Don’t make a mistake! Mend your ways… so that there are no problems after May 4 (the day of counting). You can give threatening looks and say ‘Joy Bangla’, but I am writing down everything,” he said. Reacting to Adhikari’s remarks, Trinamool Congress candidate from Nandigram, Pabitra Kar, said that Adhikari’s politics were based only on “threats and intimidation”.“As an elected representative, it is his responsibility that everyone in his constituency lives in peace. He has done exactly the opposite. But Nandigram residents will reply to his threats in the EVM,” Kar told the Times of India. A Trinamool spokesperson told the paper that the party will report the matter to EC. According to a study cited in the Times of India report, 95.5% of the names removed from the voter list in Nandigram were Muslims, even though they make up only about 25% of the constituency’s population. The report, by public policy research organisation Sabar Institute, also noted that just 4.5% of the removed names belonged to non-Muslims.