Owaisi has scared Mamata a lot that she is compelled to make use of Imams and Maulvis to avoid wasting her Muslim vote financial institution

Mamata Banerjee, the CM of West Bengal who’s amongst foremost ‘secular’ leaders of India, is so terrified of Owaisi’s entry in West Bengal that she has requested Imams and Maulvis to oppose the Hyderabad primarily based celebration. Chairman of the Bengal Imam Association, Md Yahya advised India Today, “Bengali Muslims and Bengalis, in general, have never got divided along religious lines. Some sections are trying to create a communal divide, but we won’t allow that in politics. Economic and social issues should dominate Bengal politics.”“Where was Owaisi all these days? Suddenly he got reminded of Muslims in Bengal? When Bengalis were being driven out of Assam using NRC, where was Owaisi? Owaisi cannot be the face of Muslims in Bengal. Muslim hardliner will only give advantage to hardline Hindutva,” Yahya added.He went on to allege, “They [AIMIM] are coming to divide Bengalis on Hindu-Muslim line but we won’t support that. We don’t accept Abbas Siddiqui as a political leader. Owaisi is fooling Muslims in Bengal, he came and did not even meet his own party cadres but met a cleric. He is coming to build his own fortune here,” clearly extending his assist to Mamata and TMC.“Muslims in Bengal will vote based on economic and social issues. India is a secular democratic country and we shall fight to protect it,” mentioned Md Yahya.A big part of the Muslim group and some influential clerics of Bengal have come out in assist of Owaisi in the previous couple of weeks, a lot to Mamata’s dismay. On Sunday Owaisi met a younger and influential cleric, Abbas Uddin Siddiqui, in a two-hour-long assembly. This is critical as a result of the chief has been a critic of the Mamata Government and has been outspoken about her failed insurance policies.Siddiqui, in latest months, has accused the TMC of not doing sufficient for the minority group and utilizing it as a vote financial institution as an alternative. He additionally occurs to be the younger scion of the Siddiqui household, who’s the custodian of the well-known Furfura Sharif Shrine, one of the crucial common locations of pilgrimage in Bengal. Thus, he has a considerable Muslim affect within the state and him allying with Owaisi can’t be excellent news for Mamata.Owaisi acknowledged after the assembly, “The AIMIM will stand behind Abbas Siddiqui. We will work with him and strengthen his cause. I have decided to leave all decisions to Siddiqui. I am confident that our performance will be comparable to what we achieved in Bihar. Only the minority vote is not our target. We want to fight for tribal people and other backward classes as well. If anyone can stop the BJP, it is Siddiqui.”A scared Mamata Banerjee has beforehand alleged that Owaisi is BJP’s man. The Muslims make up almost 30% of the voters within the state, a voter base Mamata has usurped, in some way. Her penchant of handing out favours to sure influential sects has till now helped flip the tables in her favour, however with BJP’s rising reputation, Mamata Banerjee fears for her diminishing powers.Mamata Banerjee can’t deny the rising reputation of Owaisi among the many North Indian Muslims, and the large surge of his celebration throughout the nation together with Maharashtra, Bihar, and West Bengal. Owaisi, who’s dropping floor in Hyderabad to BJP, has shifted his focus in the direction of North India.Moreover, given the truth that North India is bigger when it comes to the entire variety of seats within the Parliament and Assembly Constituencies, and the inhabitants of Muslims is considerably increased in comparison with Southern India, penetrating within the states like UP, Bihar, West Bengal, and Maharashtra, heading north this time has change into a pure selection for Owaisi.In a collection of actions indicating the inevitable, BJP has been diverting the Hindu vote for themselves. While it has been clear for the reason that Lok Sabha Elections of 2019 that voters are actually shifting away from TMC’s corrupt and oppressive governance mannequin, Mamata Banerjee had counted on her loyal Muslim voters to carry her a beneficial mandate. She has for lengthy relied on vote financial institution politics to maintain herself getting elected in West Bengal, again and again. However, with Owaisi’s entry within the fray, issues are definitely trying gloomy for TMC and Mamata.