Furfura Sharif’s Abbas Siddique rants in opposition to Mamata Banerjee, blames her for BJP’s rise in Bengal

Peerzada Abbasuddin Siddique, Congress ally and a Muslim preacher of Furfura sharif who acquired 30 seats to contest in 294-seat West Bengal Assembly elections, has blamed WB CM Mamata Banerjee for ruining ‘Hindu-Muslim brotherhood’. In a dialog with The Hindu, Abbas claimed that it was the West Bengal administration beneath Banerjee who stalled the Durga Visarjan due to Muharram. “Who demanded this?” he requested.
Money Banerjee gave to Imams got here from Waqf property
In the interview with The Hindu, Abbas Siddique claimed that Banerjee’s authorities introduced that they’d give Rs.2,500/- to Imams, however they by no means instructed that the cash got here from Waqf property. “When the ground shifted, you (Trinamool) said you would give money to temple priests too,” he added. Abbas mentioned Muslims solely wished what was their proper and assured by Constitution. “The biggest loss because of all this kind of politics has been that the brotherhood and amity between communities have got affected,” he claimed.
BJP flourished throughout Banerjee’s tenure
Blaming Banerjee for BJP’s rise in West Bengal, Abbas mentioned that in the course of the Vajpayee authorities, Banerjee was Railways Minister. When she turned Chief Minister of West Bengal, BJP gained power within the state. It was her who has ushered within the BJP in West Bengal, Abbas claimed.
Banerjee refused to type an alliance
Abbas claimed that he entered politics not only for the considerations of the Muslim group, however he wished to lift a voice for the poor and the dispossessed who had been cheated by the political formations. Interestingly, a while in the past, Abbas had wished for the demise of fifty crore Hindus.
On February 26 final yr, when the world was simply grappling with the information of the approaching pandemic, Abbas had mentioned, “Recently I have got the news that mosques are being set on fire, mosques are being burnt for the last two days. I think something is going to happen within a month. May Allah accept our prayers. May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that ten to twenty to fifty crore people die in India. Am I saying something wrong? It is absolutely blissful.”
Abbas claimed that when he fashioned the ‘Indian Secular Front’ and confirmed curiosity to contest elections, Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress refused to type an alliance. It was Left and Congress that confirmed curiosity in allying and agreed to his phrases. His alliance with Congress-Left entrance within the elections is predicted to harm Trinamool Congress’s Muslim voters, particularly in 5 districts, Howrah, Hooghly, North and South Parganas, a part of East Midnapore and Nadia.