Bengal polls: Former minister Humayun Kabir booked after ‘BJP deal’ claim video
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West Bengal Police on Friday registered a case against former state minister Humayun Kabir for claims he purportedly made in a widely shared video, The Indian Express reported.
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The Trinamool Congress had on Thursday shared a video on social media that purportedly shows Kabir claiming that he and the Bharatiya Janata Party had agreed to a Rs 1,000 crore-deal to help topple the Mamata Banerjee government in the state and mislead the Muslim community. Kabir is also the chief of the Aam Janata Unnayan Party.
The first information report was registered at the Suri police station in Birbhum district based on a complaint by Haji Mohammad Parvez Siddiqui, the national president of the Rashtriya Alpasankhayak Arakshan Morcha or the National Minority Reservation Front.
The complaint accused Kabir of promoting communal disharmony and attempting to disturb law and order ahead of the Assembly elections, the newspaper reported.
The Assembly elections in the state will be held in two phases on April 23 and April 29. The counting of votes will take place on May 4.
On Thursday, Kabir refuted the allegations, claiming that the video was an artificial intelligence-generated deepfake and part of a political smear campaign.
Meanwhile, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen on Friday announced that it was ending its alliance with the Aam Janata Unnayan Party for the upcoming Assembly elections following the...