Rank communal and inflammatory invectives hitherto unknown to the Bengali society were hurled and traded with impunity even as senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers and legislators threatened Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari with “physical consequences” hours after the latter vowed to throw the Muslim MLAs out of the state Assembly if the BJP came to power in 2026 state elections.
While the police administration maintained a patent indifference a Congress leader and former MLA Ali Imran Ramz on Wednesday registered a police complaint against Adhikari for trying to fan communal disturbance in the State.TMC MLA from Murshidabad Humayun Kabir gave Adhikari a “72 hours ultimatum to withdraw his statements and apologise to the Muslim legislators for his communal and insulting remarks towards the Muslim community or else all the 42 MLAs of my community will assemble outside his chamber inside the Assembly and make him see consequences.” When asked whether he was taking responsibility of his statements Kabir said, “Suvendu Adhikari has crossed his limits. He has lowered the status of the Leader of Opposition by saying that he will throw out the Muslim MLAs from the State Assembly if the BJP comes to power in Bengal. If he comes to beat us are we expected to throw sweetmeat at him. We will see how many central forces can protect him.” Another veteran leader and senior Minister Siddiqulla Chowdhury too threatened to break Adhikari’s legs if he engaged in any misadventure. “Suvendu Adhikari has spoken in most undignified way against the Muslims. He has defied the Constitution as well as the penal laws and has threatened to throw out the Muslim MLAs from the Assembly. But before he does so his legs will be broken.”
Adhikari immediately retorted at the alleged “audacity” of the TMC’s minority MLAs saying that he would take them on alone inside the Assembly premises. “I will ask for no additional security, keep coming to the House alone and go to my office with my PA and secretary. Let us see what they can do. But let me remind if anything happens to me Speaker Biman Banerjee will be held responsible for that.
Things took an ugly turn on Tuesday evening when Adhikari leading a bevy of BJP MLAs - that had walked out of the State Assembly after being denied opportunity by the Speaker to speak on alleged attacks on Hindu temples and establishments in some areas of the State - said that the “BJP will come to power in 2026 defeating Mamata Banerjee, and after we come to power in the State we will toss the Muslim MLAs out of this Assembly.” He said, “how in the last four to five days, there have been incidents of attacks on Hindu temples and idols vandalised and set on fire in a few areas in Tamluk constituency without a single arrest being made,” and how “in as Naoda area in Murshidabad district houses and shop belonging to the Hindus were set on fire and looted.”
He also complained that Birbhum Police had asked people to finish playing Basanta Utsav in Santiniketan by 11 am as it would be Friday.
