“Now There’s An Owaisi In Bengal Too”, Swarajya, February 19, 2026
“In January 2026, Mohammad Salim, the West Bengal state secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), checked into a Kolkata hotel for an hour-long meeting with Humayun Kabir.
The encounter was, by any historical measure, extraordinary. The CPI(M) governed Bengal for thirty-four years. Kabir is a suspended Trinamool Congress legislator from Murshidabad whose political identity now rests on constructing a mosque modelled on the demolished Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, and who, during the 2024 Lok Sabha campaign, told Hindus in Shaktipur: “You are 30 per cent, we are 70 per cent. I will drown you in two hours.”
The CPI(M)’s own cadre revolted. WhatsApp groups filled with fury that the party of Jyoti Basu was courting a man who had threatened communal violence…….”
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