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Owaisi’s primary ally in West Bengal all set to destabilise TMC as he plans to contest in each seat and never simply Muslim-dominated ones

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 As the race for West Bengal Assembly elections heats up, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on a sticky wicket. As if Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) throwing its hat into the ring wasn’t sufficient, influential Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui is ready to launch his occasion later this month and is inclined to combat on all 294 meeting seats on supply, thereby additional rising bother for Mamata and her Trinamool Congress.It appears that the troubles for TMC proceed to mount as, after Owaisi ’s AIMIM, Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui has additionally determined to enter the fray. The duo is aggressively concentrating on the minority vote in West Bengal — a bedrock of Mamata’s TMC, with out which it can not return to energy within the state.Siddiqui who just lately met Owaisi to debate a pre-poll alliance after being miffed with the TMC introduced his plans to launch his personal occasion in West Bengal on January 21. While Siddiqui acknowledged that his new occasion is able to combat in 60-80 meeting seats, if the anticipated alliance with the AIMIM goes by way of, then the alliance will combat on all of the 294 meeting seats on supply.This spells bother for the TMC, because the AIMIM-Siddiqui alliance wouldn’t solely give attention to seats the place the minority vote would resolve the subsequent MLA but additionally on all different seats with the alliance chipping away with minority vote in each seat, it is going to act as a vote cutter and instantly profit the ever-growing BJP in West Bengal.Read More: By selling IPS officer needed by Centre on central deputation, Mamata Govt has given a message to TMC goonsThe 30% minority vote in West Bengal at all times had a serious say in electing the state’s Chief Minister with Mamata’s two phrases too closely relied on wooing the minority citizens. However, this time round, not solely is Mamata battling super anti-incumbency on account of her absolute bungling within the dealing with of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the utter lawlessness, the Owaisi-Siddiqui issue threatens to upset her applecart by snatching away the minority voter base.Siddiqui’s determination to enter the electoral fray is way more necessary than Owaisi’s entry in West Bengal because the Furfura Sharif holds sway in at the very least 90 seats unfold throughout the districts of Malda, Murshidabad, south 24 Paraganas, Howrah and Hoogly.Owaisi is totally conscious of the affect of Siddiqui and Furfura Sharif in West Bengal as the previous has already acknowledged that not solely will he again Siddiqui, however can even combat polls collectively, holding Siddiqui within the entrance.Read More: Owaisi collaborates with influential Islamic cleric to grab the Muslim vote financial institution from Mamata and guarantee her defeat“The AIMIM will stand behind Abbas Siddiqui. We will work with him and strengthen his cause. I have decided to leave all decisions to Siddiqui. I am confident that our performance will be comparable to what we achieved in Bihar. Only the minority vote is not our target. We want to fight for tribal people and other backward classes as well. If anyone can stop the BJP, it is Siddiqui,” mentioned Owaisi after he met Siddiqui within the Hooghly district of West Bengal.While the TMC was fast to minimize the event because it tried to place up a courageous face, West Bengal Law Minister & senior TMC chief Malay Ghatak rushed to Furfura Sharif shortly after Owasi’s go to to satisfy Toha Siddiqui, the chief of Furfura Sharif, which caught the TMC abruptly.It is pertinent to notice that Siddiqui, in latest months, has lambasted the TMC for not doing sufficient for the minority group and accused of utilizing the group as a vote financial institution. Mamata’s troubles are actually mounting and plainly the winds are blowing in direction of a BJP rule in West Bengal.