‘AIMIM will help TMC to defeat the BJP in the next election’
Key points
- Some outsiders will harass and terrorize people, Mamata said, urging the people of the state to ‘resist outsiders’
- AIMIM will aim to further polarize society: Congress
- ‘West Bengal has been rejecting the policies of polarization and communalism since independence’
New Delhi: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi proposed a pre-election pact in West Bengal to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying his party will help the Trinamool Congress defeat the BJP in the upcoming elections to the state assembly.
Emboldened after winning five seats in the Seemanchal region, a confident Owaisi announced that his party would contest the Bengal assembly elections.
Owai’s statement comes after Mamata launched a veiled attack on AIMIM saying that “some outsiders” will “harass and terrorize the people” and urged the people of the state to “resist outsiders.”
Mamata urges people of West Bengal to resist outsiders
Speaking to Times Now’s Tamal, TMC MP Saugata Roy claimed that AIMIM has been established by the saffron party to reduce TMC’s vote count, while Congressional leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said the Owaisi’s party will aim to further polarize society.
“But the state of West Bengal has been rejecting the policies of polarization and communalism since independence,” he told Times Now.
Chowdhury had previously called on AIMIM nothing more than the BJP’s B team, whose sole aim is to split Muslim votes and cause harm to secular parties.
AIMIM looks at minority-dominated districts Malda, Murshidabad and North Dinajpur
Alarmed by AIMIM’s entry into Bengal, the CPI (M) and Congress, which has decided to fight the next assembly votes as partners of the alliance, held a two-hour meeting on Tuesday night to determine the strategy of the next assembly. center.
Both parties plan an outreach program in which they will reach out to community leaders and eminent personalities from the minority community. They have also decided to hold a special outreach program on National Minorities Day on December 18, PTI reported.
AIMIM takes into account the minority-dominated districts Malda, Murshidabad and North Dinajpur.
In the 2016 assembly polls, the Congress-CPI (M) alliance had won 34 of the 76 seats in these districts.
