Mamata’s assertion comes at a time when the BJP is playing the Ram temple card across the country, including Bengal, especially after its inauguration in Ayodhya on January 22
Siddique reached Sitalkuchi, an Assembly constituency on the India-Bangladesh border where the Nasya Sheikh community or Rajbanshi Muslims are a majority
Trinamul seeks to court Rajbanshi group In his speech, Mishra also blamed the Left Front and the Congress for the BJP’s emergence in the state
The Trinamul Congress leadership in north Bengal has launched an initiative to woo Rajbanshi Muslims at a time the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) was planning to field candidates in some Assembly seats.
Omprakash Mishra, a Trinamul leader who had been camping here for the past few days and holding talks with party leaders and different organisations, urged the Nasya Sheikh community (Rajbanshi Muslims) to stand in support of Mamata Banerjee and her party to prevent the AIMIM from dividing the minority votes.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee repeated her pledge against the Narendra Modi government’s citizenship matrix on Wednesday to revive her support base in Cooch Behar the district that shares border with Assam where the National Register of Citizens (NRC) had been published last year.
“We will never allow the BJP to implement the NRC, CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) or the NPR (National Population Register) in Bengal. The BJP is playing divisive politics by using these tools and we will not let it happen,” Mamata told a public meeting at the Rashmela Ground here.
After the publication of the NRC in Assam, its repercussions were felt in districts like Cooch Behar and Alipurduar. Hundreds of families living in these districts had expressed concern over the future of their family members who stay in Assam and could not make it to the NRC.