A section of the Bengal BJP leadership has claimed that there is a threat to the life of State Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari. This, after more than one Trinamool Congress MLAs including a Minister threatened him with dire consequences after Adhikari said that the BJP would throw out all the Muslim MLAs from the State Assembly after coming to power in 2026.
“Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari’s life is in threat … he may be murdered any day … even inside the Assembly House … only today a man in black robes had entered the Assembly area ... before he was identified he was mingling with the BJP MLAs who too were donning black clothes as a mark of protest,” BJP’s Chief Whip inside the Assembly Shankar Ghosh said demanding an apology from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, senior Minister Firhad Hakim and party MLA Humayun Kabir “who had issued the threats.”
While Kabir remained defiant saying his community was dearer to him than his party Ghosh said, “This man Humayun Kabir has issued physical threats to Suvendu Adhikari … he and Firhad Hakim should immediately apologise for this … but before this the Chief Minister should offer an apology … whatever has been going on in Bengal signifies a black chapter in the States political history … the ferocity exhibited by some of their MLAs is deplorable … where do they get this audacity from.”
Kabir however remained defiant regarding the statement he made on Wednesday. “Whatever I have said has been said deserves no apology … to me my community is ahead of my party … I will not apologise,” Kabir said going to the extent of asking “why the police have not taken suo motu cognizance against his statements insulting members of other religion … why the Government has not taken any action against him for making such irresponsible, communal remarks.”
Earlier issuing a 72 hours’ ultimatum to Adhikari he had said that, the Leader of Opposition had crossed all limits and “he has brought down the dignity of his office by threatening to assault the Muslim MLAs … if he does not publicly apologise for his remarks then all the 42 Muslim MLAs will assemble outside his chamber and give him what he deserves.” Another senior TMC leader and Minister Siddiqulla Chowdhury too threatened of physical attack saying “Suvendu Adhikari has conducted in a most undemocratic manner … he has defied the Constitution and the penal laws and should be penalised for this … his legs should be broken for what he has said.”
Adhikari had while protesting against Bengal Speaker Biman Banerjee’s decision denying the BJP legislators chance to speak against alleged desecration of temples and attack on shops and houses of Hindus at various place on Tuesday said that if his party would come to power in 2026 it would not let the Muslim MLAs enter the Assembly.
“Mamata Banerjee will be defeated in the next year’s Assembly elections and when we come to power in 2026 we will throw all the Muslim MLAs out the Assembly,” Adhikari said attracting immediate reaction from some minority MLAs.
Meanwhile, the Opposition Leader on Thursday said that he was not attaching much importance to Kabir’s threats and he would go to the Assembly House alone daring him to touch and face the consequence.
Referring to Kabir as an “eccentric person deserving no attention,” Adhikari said, “I will go alone to the Assembly House … there will be no security forces with me … I will go to my office and do my work … I dare him to touch me and … then see the consequence.”