The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, made a statement at the gates of the House precincts that sounded suspiciously like hate speech. Suspended from the Assembly for 30 days from February 17, he said at the gates to the complex on March 11 that his party would throw out all Muslim MLAs from the Assembly once it came to power in Bengal. We shall come to the proximate cause of the outburst. On March 13, Suman Roychaudhury, a West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee functionary, lodged a first-information report with the police, arguing that the statement would create unrest and........

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