Kolkata: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) headed by Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday ruled out an alliance with suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir, who laid the root stone of a mosque modelled on Ayodhya’s Babri Masjid in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Saturday.
“As a long way our info goes, Kabir is a member of the core crew of Bengal’s Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) chief Suvendu Adhikari and the whole nation is aware of that Adhikari is a member of the core crew of Union house minister Amit Shah,” AIMIM spokesperson Syed Asim Waqar told HT.
“Muslims of this country don’t luxuriate in a unfavorable mindset. They are with of us who create the nation. Owaisi Saab never helps those which might perhaps possibly presumably be looking to execute peace and communal harmony. The Muslims of Bengal know totally below whose instructions Kabir is working,” Waqar added.
Reacting to Waqar’s train, Kabir acknowledged: “I don’t know what the AIMIM spokesperson has acknowledged however some Hyderabad of us shut to Owaisi contacted me. Owaisi, too, is named the BJP’s agent. These are section of politics. If Owaisi needs to contest polls in Bengal then he needs me. I don’t need him.”
Taking potshots at each and every Owaisi and Kabir, TMC express usual secretary Kunal Ghosh acknowledged, “Many might perhaps possibly additionally aspire to contest polls in Bengal however will constructing, which Mamata Banerjee ensures, be on their agenda? Can they ship that?”
The constructing came about hours after Kabir, who plans to start his occupy birthday party on December 22, claimed on the positioning of the proposed mosque that he has been invited to Hyderabad, the attach the AIMIM has obtained the Lok Sabha seat with out a damage since 1989.
Kabir was once described as a “traitor working for the BJP” by chief minister Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Murshidabad on Thursday, hours after he was once suspended.
“Owaisi has invited me to Hyderabad for talks. You are going to additionally rob into fable our alliance with AIMIM performed,” Kabir told the media as many native villagers arrived with bricks and constructing offers as donations for the mosque he has named Babri Masjid.
In 2020, when the AIMIM obtained 5 seats within the Bihar assembly polls and was once accused by the Congress of splitting Muslim votes to help the BJP, Owaisi announced that his males would contest the Bengal polls in 2021. The plans failed and 21 AIMIM people joined the TMC in November 2020.
Even though Kabir caught to his possibility to operate a novel birthday party, he bowled over of us on Sunday by saying that he would continue as a TMC MLA as a replace of resigning from the express legislative assembly.
“Quite quite a bit of my of us luxuriate in urged me to continue. As an MLA, I region certificates, which they desire to sing for diversified authorities schemes,” he acknowledged.
Kabir, the MLA from Murshidabad’s Bharatpur constituency, is establishing the mosque on the district’s Beldanga rental that was once rocked by communal violence in April this 365 days. Paramilitary forces are serene deployed within the distress below orders of the Calcutta excessive court docket.
To counter his transfer, Sakharabh Sarkar, a district BJP chief, executed a puja on Saturday and announced that he’ll create a Ram Mandir modelled after the one at Ayodhya in Berhampore.
Muslims comprise 66% of Murshidabad district’s inhabitants, Bengal’s perfect, per the 2011 census. Kabir claimed that his birthday party will contest 135 of Bengal’s 294 assembly seats subsequent 365 days.
“There are no longer much less than 90 seats the attach the Muslim inhabitants varies between 42 and 82 % however the TMC has handiest 44 Muslim MLAs. Our neighborhood deserves more representation,” he claimed.
Kabir acknowledged his birthday party can luxuriate in the Congress, CPI(M) and the Indian Secular Entrance represented by its sole MLA Nawsad Siddiqui as allies as nicely.
Passe express Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who represented Murshidabad’s Berhampore Lok Sabha seat 5 times in a row earlier than being defeated closing 365 days by TMC’s Yusuf Pathan, a aged cricketer and Gujarat resident, centered Kabir for making such statements.
“I beg to the of us of Bengal with folded hands now to no longer fall for this communal politics by BJP and TMC. If we don’t cease now then a day will come when there’ll seemingly be separate tea stalls for Hindus and Muslims in Murshidabad,” Chowdhury acknowledged.
“Mamata Banerjee is guilty for the destruction of Bengal’s communal fabric. Having treated Muslims as vote banks for years as a replace of ensuring their constructing, she is now spending money from the express exchequer to create temples in Digha and Siliguri and woo Hindu voters,” Chowdhury added.
No CPI(M) chief, together with Bengal express secretary Md Salim, commented except Sunday evening on Kabir’s proposal for an electoral alliance.
