NCPI MPs Urge Suvendu Adhikari to Halt Removal of Mosque Loudspeakers, Seek Relief for Voters Excluded in SIR

PTI, August 8, 2026, Kolkata: Two NCPI MPs from West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Saturday urged Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to stop removing mosque loudspeakers, alleging police acted "overenthusiastically" on the matter, and sought his intervention to expedite hearings of around 27 lakh people excluded from electoral rolls during SIR.

The meeting with the Chief Minister at the secretariat here came a day after the MPs -- Murshidabad seat's Abu Taher Khan and Jangipur's Khalilur Rehman -- attended a breakfast meeting hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Parliamentarians of several alliance partners in the national capital.

Talking to reporters, Khan alleged that Muslims were being targeted in the state over the loudspeaker issue and said the rules should apply to all religious communities. "Removing loudspeakers from mosques is extremely unfortunate and painful for us. Removing microphones used for azaan in mosques is unprecedented since Independence. Muslims are being targeted in Bengal. We have urged the government to put a stop to it," Khan said.

While asserting that the court's directions to curb noise pollution must be followed, Khan said they had been told by the chief minister that around 3,800 microphones had been removed, including from nearly 1,200 temples.

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