'Don't let anyone split your votes', Mamata Banerjee urges 'minority community’ in West Bengal
Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged the minority community not allow their votes to get divided in the state in the coming Lok Sabha polls. She affirmed that she is with INDIA alliance, which oust BJP in six months, but she will continue to fight Congress and CPI-M in the state as BJP wants to divide the minority vote and try to take benefit in Bengal in the coming polls.
Banerjee, who was speaking at a conference of the state’s imams and muezzins in Kolkata, claimed that BJP is instigating divisive forces in the state and teaming up with Congress and CPI-M.
Banerjee has cleared her stand time and again in the recent days that though she will be part of the INDIA alliance in Delhi and fight to remove the BJP government at the Centre, ahe will continue to fight against Congress and CPI-M in the state.
The West Bengal Chief Minister also urged the minority community not to fall prey to divisive politics allegedly instigated by BJP for vote bank politics.
Banerjee told the Imams and muezzins in the programme that she will oppose the uniform civil code as she had opposed and prevented NRC and CAA. «BJP is instigating divisive forces in Bengal and teaming up with Congress and CPI-M in Bengal.
We believe in communal harmony.» Senior Trinamool Congress leaders from the minority community, including state ministers Firhad Hakim and Siddiqullah Chowdhury, were present at the meeting.
Banerjee's presence at the conference was significant when Trinamool is aiming at consolidation of Muslim votes and prevent its shift with the rise of the Indian Secular Front (ISF).
She elaborated about developments done for the minority community in the state. «The Centre has stopped OBC scholarships as 99% Muslims in Bengal are OBCs,» Banerjee
