“West Bengal: Samim Laskar’s Dangerous Politics of Mob Mobilisation in Baruipur”, My Ind Maker, January 31, 2026

“In an era where a single social media post can mobilise crowds faster than any street-corner speech, the line between free expression and reckless incitement has never been thinner. That line appears to have been deliberately blurred by Samim Laskar — a Facebook influencer with over 10,000 followers, a public speaker, and a current resident of Baruipur, West Bengal — through a pattern of online activity that raises serious questions about intent, responsibility, and public safety.

On 27 January, Laskar uploaded a Facebook post announcing the formation of a “powerful resistance committee” in Baruipur, ostensibly to protect Muslims from alleged attacks and “communal sentiments” of Hindu organisations. The framing was stark, urgent, and alarmist [1]. Yet the claim collapses under even minimal scrutiny.

There is no documentary evidence of any communally motivated attack against Muslims in Baruipur that would justify such a call to mobilisation. On the contrary, 2025 alone has seen at least two documented incidents of communal violence targeting Hindus, including the desecration of a Hindu temple in the same locality [2][3]. In other words, the empirical record runs directly opposite to the narrative Laskar sought to popularise…….”

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