Overview
- The Trinamool Congress leadership delivered a final warning to Birbhum strongman Anubrata Mondal after an audio clip of him threatening a police officer went viral.
- Mondal conceded that the voice in the recording was his after previously claiming it had been fabricated by artificial intelligence.
- State president Subrata Bakshi rebuked Mondal and rival Kajal Sheikh and instructed them to collaborate ahead of West Bengal’s 2026 assembly elections.
- Senior TMC figures cited the party’s swift response to derogatory language in contrast to its political rivals.
- The Central Bureau of Investigation has opened a fresh inquiry into allegations of witness intimidation in Mondal’s cattle-smuggling case.