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.