Rupankar Bagchi appoints private security guards at residence after repeated death threats for controversial KK comments

Rupankar Bagchi couldn’t even imagine that things will become so nasty because of his Facebook live video claiming

West Bengal

has better vocalists than KK. It created a social media storm hours after KK died following the concert on May 31. Since then Rupankar has been trolled, slammed, and brutally criticized by not only netizens but his industry peers as well. The National Award-winning singer even received death threats post KK’s tragic demise as many claimed it was because of his curse KK succumbed to death.

Not only Rupankar, even his wife

Chaitali

has also received death threats since yesterday evening. It all started on Wednesday morning when the popular singer started getting messages on his phone and all of them abusing and threatening him. He has even appointed private security guards for protection. The Bagchi couple has also lodged an official complaint at the Tala police station over security concerns.

For the unversed, in the Facebook live, recorded a day before KK’s death, Rupankar claimed that KK may be a great singer, but West Bengal has better vocalists than him. He even said that regional singers like

Somlata

(Acharya), Iman (Chakraborty), Raghab (Chatterjee), Ujjaini (Mukherjee), and

Rupam

(Islam) among others can sing better than KK. "KK, KK, KK...who is KK? Why so much excitement about Mumbai artists? Learn from Odisha, Punjab and Southern industry - please become Bengali first," a visibly furious Rupankar was seen saying all these in the video when commenting on the craze surrounding the late singer's visit to Kolkata.

However, Rupankar later had to delete the video hours after KK's death, but the damage was already done. The video was already viral on social media and kicked up an outrage.

After being trolled over the video, the acclaimed Bengali singer later told the media, "What I meant to say was that people of West Bengal must be more proud of Bengali literature, identity and songs. I spoke in favour of retaining our culture. If anyone thinks otherwise, it is his/her issue."