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TINY TWIST IN the tail can sometimes tell us more than a spin of the head. While the headlines of the Bengal election go to Mamata Banerjee, there is much to learn from the fate of a party which won only one seat out of the 292 in the new Assembly.
It was an instant project which adopted a grand name for the ballot: Rashtriya Secular Majlis Party. It also called itself the Indian Secular Front. Its objective was slightly less inclusive: it positioned itself as the electoral vehicle of the Bengali Muslim vote. The al-leged lure was its association with the venerated Furfura Sharif shrine in rural Hooghly. A long queue of experienced politicians, sombre-faced leftist and rightist opinion-makers, and industrious journalists immediately pronounced that the oratory of its leader, 34-year-old Abbas Siddiqui, and the sanctity of the shrine would magnetise the Muslim vote towards this upstart entity.
Bengal Cong incharge blames alliance with ISF for wipe out
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New Delhi, May 10 : Distancing itself from the alliance with ISF, Congress West Bengal in-charge Jitin Prasada said in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meet on Monday that the alliance with the ISF ruined the party prospects in the state, sources said. He said that the ISF alliance was finalized by the Left parties and not the Congress.
At the time of elections, Congress leader Anand Sharma had raised the issue but was snubbed by Adheer Ranjan Chowdhury that the Left had given its share of seats to ISF.
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AIMIM or ISF no alternative; Muslims resposed faith in TMC to stop BJP juggernaut: Politicos
Veteran TMC leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury stated that the minority community knew well that Banerjee was the only person who could stop BJP s juggernaut in Bengal.
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KOLKATA: Muslims in Bengal have largely exercised their franchise in favour of the TMC, putting to rest all speculations over their voting pattern, as results showed that the AIMIM and newly floated ISF have failed to curry favour with members of the community.
AIMIM or ISF no alternative; Muslims reposed faith in TMC to stop BJP juggernaut: Politicos
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Veteran TMC leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury stated that the minority community knew well that Banerjee was the only person who could stop BJP s juggernaut in Bengal.
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Muslims in Bengal have largely exercised their franchise in favour of the TMC, putting to rest all speculations over their voting pattern, as results showed that the AIMIM and newly floated ISF have failed to curry favour with members of the community.
Veteran TMC leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury stated that the minority community knew well that Banerjee was the only person who could stop BJP s juggernaut in Bengal.