All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Musleeman (AIIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s entry into Bengal has given rise to a political uproar. Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Ulema has stated that their lens is not going to melt in Bengal. Let us tell you that they have made their intentions clear by announcing a pact with the young Pirzada Abbasuddin Siddiqui of the Siddiqui family, the patron of the famous Farfura Sharif shrine in Hooghly district.
The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), Congress and the Left parties have accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of splitting Muslim votes in the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar assembly elections, with many Muslim clerics and imams reporting as voters in Bengal which cannot be accepted by AIMIM.
TMC government minister and Jamiat Ulema president Siddiquullah Chaudhary has also declared that OYC has no place in Bengal politics. The response of the minority community chiefs against the entry of AIIMM Bengal is significant because it is known that all political parties cannot come to power only with the support of Hindu voters.
The Muslim population of Bengal was 27.01% at the 2011 census and is now expected to rise to around 30%. The districts with the largest Muslim population are Muslidabad (66.28%), Malda (51.27%), Uttar Dinajpur (49.92%), South 24 Parganas (35.57%), and Birbhum (37.06%). The eastern and western Burdwan districts, the northern 24 Parganas and Nadia have the largest number of Muslim voters.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of pleasing minority communities, saying that AIIMM is an independent party and can contest elections anywhere.
According to surveys conducted by the TMC and the BJP, the swing of Muslim votes could affect the election results in the form of 120 assembly seats. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that his party will win the Mamata Banerjee government by winning over 200 seats in the state’s 294 seats, while Banerjee’s election strategist Prashant Kishore recently tweeted that if the BJP rally crosses 99, he will quit.
OYC on Sunday met Abbas Siddiqui, who has made his first significant move to pose a threat to the TMC in the polls in a few months, as he has emerged as a ruling party critic in recent months. Siddiqui has spoken about the plan to launch a broad political platform to contest elections with Hindu Dalits and tribal communities. ODYC said Sunday that Siddiqui will decide how AIIMIM will contest the election when it lags behind a young pastor.
The Furfura Sharif Temple is one of the most popular pilgrimage centers in Bengal. It is built around the tomb of Pir Abubakar Siddiqui. It is a mosque built in 1375. Farfura Sharif attracts millions of people at the annual fair, which is dedicated to the Urs festival and the Pir.
Responding to Owaisi’s plans, the West Bengal Imams Association said communal politics had no place in Bengal. Of the nearly 40,000 mosques in Bengal, at least 26,000 are members of the Maulvi Sangha.
The President of the Imam Association, MD Yahya said, “Whether Hindus or Muslims, the people of the state have the same identity. They are all Bengalis. On the one hand, these Bengalis are being promoted by the BJP as Ghistia (Hindi infiltrators), on the other hand, some leaders of Hyderabad and Gujarat are coming to Bengal to divide the population on communal basis. It cannot be accepted. “
In April last year, Yahya wrote a letter to Governor Jagdeep Dhankar, who sought to distort communal harmony by constitutional post and demanded that Nizamuddin Markaz’s statement in Delhi be withdrawn.
On Thursday evening, another member of the family, Pirzada Ziauddin Siddiqui, told HT that Shahruf could not be dragged into politics. He said, “Pir Abubakar Siddiqui or any of our ancestors did not join politics. It is a religious place and it is like that. What Abbas is doing is entirely his business.”
The largest and most important mosque in Kolkata is the Nakhoda Mosque, built over a century ago in the replica of Emperor Akbar’s tomb in Agra. Namoda Mosque’s Imam Maulana Mo Shafiq Kasmi said that propagating the politics of religion would not benefit any party. He said, “I am a religious person. I don’t know what happened in politics before my birth, but today the Bengal people disagree. ”
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