Yusuf Pathan’s “Good Chai” Submit Slammed As Bengal Simmers After Violence

As Bengal’s Murshidabad simmers as a result of violence over the Waqf (Modification) Act, native Trinamool Congress MP and former cricketer Yusuf Pathan is drawing fireplace for an Instagram submit by which he’s seen enjoyable and having fun with a cup of tea. Whereas a lot of the violence-hit areas usually are not a part of Mr Pathan’s constituency, they’re situated close by and the timing of the Insta submit has raised eyebrows and triggered outrage on social media.     

Mr Pathan shared three footage on Instagram two days again, with the caption, “Simple afternoons, good chai, and calm environment. Simply soaking within the second.” Shortly after, social media customers began criticising him for the submit at a time when Murshidabad was tense as a result of violence. One person requested, “Do you will have any disgrace?”

Bengal is burning
HC has stated it could actually’t maintain eyes closed and deployed centra forces

Mamata Banerjee is encouraging such state protected violence as Police stays silent!

In the meantime Yusuf Pathan – MP sips tea and soaks within the second as Hindus get slaughtered…

That is TMC pic.twitter.com/P1Yr7MYjAM

— Shehzad Jai Hind (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Shehzad_Ind) April 13, 2025

The BJP hit out on the Trinamool MP and accused the Mamata Banerjee authorities of encouraging state-protected violence. “Bengal is burning. HC has stated it could actually’t maintain eyes closed and deployed central forces. Mamata Banerjee is encouraging such state protected violence as Police stays silent! In the meantime Yusuf Pathan – MP sips tea and soaks within the second as Hindus get slaughtered. That is TMC,” BJP’s nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla has stated in a submit on X.

Mr Pathan is but to react to the criticism.

Supporters of Left events, too, have slammed Yusuf Pathan for his submit. 

Three folks have been killed within the violence at Murshidabad in north Bengal after protests in opposition to the Waqf Modification Act turned violent. The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom yesterday ordered the deployment of central forces within the district. “We can not flip a blind eye to the varied stories which have surfaced which prima facie reveals vandalism in few districts of the State of West Bengal,” the court docket stated. “Constitutional Courts can’t be a mute spectator and embroil itself in technical defences when the security and safety of the persons are at hazard,” the bench added.

Yusuf Pathan, a former Group India cricketer and brother of Irfan Pathan, is a Lok Sabha MP from Baharampur, one in every of three parliamentary constituencies in Murshidabad district. Violence has been reported in Suti, Dhuliya, Samserganj and another areas within the district. Out of those three areas, Samserganj and Dhuliya are in Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency and Suti in Jangipur. Whereas Congress’s Isha Khan Choudhury is MP from Maldaha Dakshin, Trinamool’s Khalilur Rahaman represents Jangipur. These areas are situated about 80 km from Mr Pathan’s constituency. 

In final 12 months’s basic election, Mr Pathan defeated five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in what was thought-about a Congress bastion. Throughout the election, the Trinamool’s political rivals had questioned why Mr Pathan, primarily based in Gujarat’s Baroda, was being fielded as an MP candidate in Bengal. The row over his Instagram submit and his silence over the violence has fuelled public anger in opposition to the previous cricketer.