Asaduddin Owaisi s All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) which has joined hands with the Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP) in Gujarat to contest the local body polls, launched its unit in the state on Saturday.AIMIM has appointed former .
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The BJP has painted the TMC with the minority appeasement brush. With the Muslims backing Mamata Banerjee, there is a high probability of the Hindus standing with the BJP
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The West Bengal assembly elections are due in April-May. After an impressive show in the 2019 general elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is confident of breaching the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC’s) stronghold.
On the other hand, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC leader Mamata Banerjee hopes to ride home banking on her development work, sub-nationalism and the backing of minorities. The Left parties and the Congress Mahajot hope to get back some of votes they lost to the BJP in 2019 and emerge kingmakers.
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KOLKATA: Abbas Siddiqui, a pirzada of Hooghly’s Furfura Sharif, is set to announce his new outfit of Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis on January 21, giving a new dimension to identity politics in West Bengal.
“I am going to launch the new outfit on January 21. This outfit will be a platform for Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis in Bengal. Many Adivasi and Dalit representatives came to me in the last few months. Leaders of mainstream political parties also came to me for talks. For the moment, we are aiming to contest 60-80 seats in the assembly elections,” Siddiqui said.
The Furfura cleric got a boost when All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi came to his place a fortnight ago and promised to work with him. Since then, Siddiqui had been floating the prospect of launching a new party at religious jalsas held in rural North and South 24 Parganas and East Midnapore.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) will contest the upcoming panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP)."Candidates belonging to AIMIM will be fielded in the panchayat .