TMC’s Firhad Hakim campaigns at Masjid, guarantees Imams extra money

On Saturday, Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Firhad Hakim was noticed delivering a political speech at a masjid in Kolkata forward of the upcoming elections in West Bengal, in blatant violation of the Model Code of Conduct. Hakim is the Mayor of Kolkata and the Minister for Urban Development and Municipal Affairs.
The mannequin of conduct clearly states, “There shall be no appeal to caste or communal feelings for securing votes. Mosques, Churches, Temples or other places of worship shall not be used as forum for election propaganda.”
In an unique information story, TV9 Bharatvarsh reported that the TMC chief raised political slogans on the masjid. In a bid to proceed its stronghold over the Muslim vote financial institution within the State, Firhad Hakim raised the difficulty of Gujarat riots that befell 19 years in the past. While casting aspersions concerning the rival BJP, he alleged that the rioting that befell in Gujarat in 2002 shouldn’t be allowed to repeat in West Bengal. He appealed to the Muslims gathered within the masjid to notice vote for the BJP.
ममता के मंत्री फिरहाद हकीम का भड़काऊ बयान..मस्जिद में गुजरात की बात ! #TMC | #BJP | #MamataBanerjee | #WestBengal | @dineshgautam1 | @upadhyayabhii pic.twitter.com/qvjyaDz3dz— TV9 Bharatvarsh (@TV9Bharatvarsh) February 27, 2021
Furthermore, Firhad Hakim stated that the honorarium (bhata) paid to Imams could be elevated if the Mamata-Banerjee-run-TMC is voted again to energy. He assured that he has plans to extend the month-to-month earnings of the Muslim clerics within the State. Interestingly, the Imam sitting subsequent to him urged the viewers to say ‘Ameen’ (as a gesture of settlement to Hakim’s political speech).
On being confronted by TV9 Bharatvarsh chief, the TMC chief claimed that he had come to the mosque to supply prayers (dua) in order that the ‘divisive forces’ could be demolished within the state. He additional stated that round 2000 individuals died in the course of the Gujarat riots, 52 in the course of the Delhi riots, and the way terrorist Ishrat Jahan was supposedly killed in a faux encounter case. When quizzed about his promise to extend honorarium for Imams, Hakim tried to dodge the query and stated that he didn’t promise something.
मस्जिद में भड़काऊ मंंत्री…बंगाल में ‘आचार संहिता’ की धज्जी उड़ी?#TMC | #BJP | #MamataBanerjee | #WestBengal | @dineshgautam1 | @upadhyayabhii pic.twitter.com/ZtZDMbASMo— TV9 Bharatvarsh (@TV9Bharatvarsh) February 27, 2021
He claimed that solely the ‘morally upright’ Muslims grow to be Imams and that they undergo from monetary disaster. The TMC chief added that whereas Mamata Banerjee made the initiative of ‘Imam bhata’, the funds obtainable with Waqf board can remedy their monetary disaster. On being prodded additional, Hakim reiterated that he was invited to the Imam Conference on the masjid premises and that he had come to solely supply prayers. Hitting out on the TMC, the BJP has knowledgeable that they’d method the Election Commission and register a grievance towards Firhad Hakim for violating the Model Code of Conduct.
The combat over Muslim vote financial institution in West Bengal
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress social gathering and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM have been locked in a battle for Muslim votes in Bengal.
It could also be recalled how Mamata Banerjee had launched a scathing assault at Owaisi after the latter introduced to enter the electoral fray within the state. She had accused AIMIM of being beneath the payroll of BJP, saying that they had been not directly serving to BJP by dividing the Muslim votes. However, responding to the allegations of Mamata Banerjee, Asaduddin Owaisi had lambasted her by saying that he can’t be purchased for cash.
On one facet, Asaduddin Owaisi is threatening to seize her Muslim vote financial institution whereas on the opposite, the Hindus have already consolidated behind the BJP on account of her steady Muslim appeasement. In such a precarious state of affairs, it’s only simply that the unnerved Mamata Banerjee desires a minimum of Owaisi to not enter the electoral fray of West Bengal. The Election Commission of India on Friday introduced an eight-phased Assembly ballot for West Bengal starting March 27. The counting of votes will happen on May 2.