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Biman Bose, Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Bhupesh Baghel, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and other leaders join hands during a joint rally of Left, Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF) ahead of West Bengal assembly polls in Kolkata.
Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has hit back at party colleague Anand Sharma for questioning the party s tie-up with Indian Secular Front (ISF) in West Bengal for the upcoming Assembly polls. Chowdhury is also the Congress West Bengal unit president. He accused Sharma of helping the polarising agenda of the BJP.
Chowdhury asked Sharma to rise above always seeking personal comfort sports and stop praising PM .
War of Words Within Congress Over Alliance With ISF in West Bengal
Anand Sharma slammed the party s tie-up with the party led by Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui, saying the party cannot be selective in fighting communalists . Bengal party chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said his remarks served the polarising agenda of BJP .
Congress leaders Anand Sharma (left) and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (right). Photos: Twitter/@AnandSharmaINC and Facebook/@chowdhury.adhir
Politics02/Mar/2021
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Monday slammed the party’s tie-up with Indian Secular Front (ISF) led by Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui in West Bengal, saying it was against “Gandhian and Nehruvian secularism” and the party cannot be selective in fighting the “communalists”.
Updated Mar 02, 2021 · 05:31 pm File photo of Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. | IANS
West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday hit back at colleague Anand Sharma for criticising their party’s alliance with the Indian Secular Front for the Assembly elections in the state.
The Indian Secular Front was formed in January and is led by Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui, who is the cleric of Hooghly district’s prominent medieval shrine Furfura Shareef. Siddiqui is considered to have great influence on Muslims in south Bengal, but his party has earned the reputation of being a fundamentalist group due to controversial comments made by him in his religious speeches. Popularly known as “bhaijaan [brother]” by his supporters, Siddique had shared the stage with the Left Front and Congress leaders on Sunday at a historic joint rally in Kolkata.
India News: NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Monday slammed the party's tie-up with Indian Secular Front (ISF) led by Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqu.
He also said that the party cannot be selective in fighting the communalists and it must do so in all its manifestations, irrespective of religion and colour