Kolkata: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) headed by Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday ruled out an alliance with suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir, who laid the foundation stone of a mosque modelled on Ayodhya’s Babri Masjid in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Saturday.
Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir. (ANI) “As far our knowledge goes, Kabir is a member of the core team of Bengal’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari and the entire nation knows that Adhikari is a member of the core team of Union home minister Amit Shah,” AIMIM spokesperson Syed Asim Waqar told HT.
“Muslims of this country don’t have a destructive mindset. They are with people who build the nation. Owaisi Saab never helps those who want to destroy peace and communal harmony. The Muslims of Bengal know very well under whose instructions Kabir is working,” Waqar added.
Reacting to Waqar’s statement, Kabir said: “I don’t know what the AIMIM spokesperson has said but some Hyderabad people close to Owaisi contacted me. Owaisi, too, is called the BJP’s agent. These are part of politics. If Owaisi wants to contest polls in Bengal then he needs me. I don’t need him.”
Taking potshots at both Owaisi and Kabir, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said, “Many may aspire to contest polls in Bengal but will development, which Mamata Banerjee ensures, be on their agenda? Can they deliver that?”
The development took place hours after Kabir, who plans to launch his own party on December 22, claimed at the site of the proposed mosque that he has been invited to Hyderabad, where the AIMIM has won the Lok Sabha seat without a break since 1989.
Kabir was described as a “traitor working for the BJP” by chief minister Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Murshidabad on Thursday, hours after he was suspended.
“Owaisi has invited me to Hyderabad for talks. You may consider our alliance with AIMIM done,” Kabir told the media as many local villagers arrived with bricks and construction materials as donations for the mosque he has named Babri Masjid.
In 2020, when the AIMIM won five seats in the Bihar assembly polls and was accused by the Congress of splitting Muslim votes to help the BJP, Owaisi announced that his men would contest the Bengal polls in 2021. The plans fai
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