NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary K C Venugopal Sunday wrote to home minister Amit Shah drawing his attention to what he referred to as a "chilling and heinous" death threat issued to leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi by Printu Mahadev - "a spokesperson of BJP" - during a televised debate. Venugopal demanded immediate, exemplary action by the state police, "so that justice is swift, visible and severe". Venugopal said "as such, any failure by you to act swiftly, decisively and publicly will be judged as complicity - a de facto licence for the legitimisation of complicity and normalisation of violence against the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha and a grave breach of your oath as the Union home minister." Venugopal claimed Mahadev is a spokesman for BJP and made the

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