Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari alleged that Yusuf Pathan won the Baharampur Lok Sabha seat by playing the communal card and said that including him in the all-party delegation is an example of communalism. Yusuf Khan Pathan, a former Indian cricketer and member of the Trinamool Congress, made his first-class cricket debut in the 2001–02 season. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler, and his younger brother Irfan Pathan also played cricket for India.