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KOLKATA: Suspended Trinamool MLA Humayun Kabir has acknowledged that a video released by the enactment - purportedly showing him seeking Rs 1,000 crore from BJP and calling Muslims "gullible" - is authentic but alleged it was selectively edited from a 51-minute recording.
The admittance has handed Trinamool caller ammunition against BJP up of Bengal polls aft PM Narendra Modi's remark connected TMC circulating AI-generated clips. "The video is true, but lone 19 minutes of a 51-minute speech person been shown. I was speaking to 2 persons - 1 claimed to beryllium a sadhu from Siliguri, the different a writer from Delhi. I person the afloat video to enactment my claims," Kabir said. He alleged that TMC's Abhishek Banerjee had orchestrated a sting operation, sending a antheral "disguised arsenic a maharaj" and a Delhi-based writer to entrap him.
The 19-minute clip, titled 'The Reality of HK', has not been independently verified. "I volition place them and instrumentality ineligible action. I person six lawyers ready," helium said, adding the signaling took spot astatine his Berhampore level connected Dec 19, 2025. "There is nary footage showing maine gathering immoderate BJP subordinate - not Modi, not Shah," helium said. TMC was speedy to usage the admittance to people BJP. "When Kabir himself has said the video is real, wherefore did the PM telephone it AI-generated?" a enactment functionary asked.
CM Mamata Banerjee seized connected the admission. "You are seeing however a Rs 1,000 crore woody has been made to disagreement Hindus and Muslims. The idiosyncratic successful the video is saying it is existent - however volition this beryllium covered up now?" she asked astatine a rally successful Bankura's Onda. The contention has already claimed governmental casualties. AIMIM snapped its confederation with Kabir's AUJP wrong a time of the video surfacing, saying it "cannot subordinate with statements wherever the integrity of Muslims is questioned" and announcing it would contention the Bengal elections independently. The alliance, announced weeks earlier, had envisaged AJUP contesting 182 of Bengal's 294 seats and AIMIM 17.
