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MIM Appoints 8 Observers For Bengal Assembly Polls

by Ashok Chatterjee
January 31, 2021
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Kolkata: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Sunday announced appointment of eight observers for the Assembly election in West Bengal.

A letter, signed by Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri, AIMIM general secretary and MLA Yakutpura, Telangana, said party president and MP Asaduddin Owaisi has appointed eight observers for Bengal.

The AIMIM’s decision holds significance as the party has been making steady progress in the state after the announcement that it will contest the Assembly polls for the first time.

In the first week of January, Owaisi had visited Furfura Sharif, a prominent religious shrine for Muslims in Hooghly district, and announced a tie-up. Owasi had met Abbas Siddique, peerzada and secretary of the Furfura Sharif and described him as the guiding light of the Furfura Sharif. “I realised that if I have to make the Majlis flag strong, I have to pay obeisance to the Furfura Sharif,” Owaisi had said.

The party has divided the state in four zones – Kolkata and south Bengal; Murshidabad, Birbhum and Nadia; north and south Dinajpur, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar and fourth is Malda. Kolkata and south Bengal zone will cover Howrah, Hooghly, Midnapore, Burdwan and North and South 24-Parganas.

Each zone will have two observers who will oversee the party’s progress and campaign details. Jaffar Hussain Meraj, Nampally MLA from Telangana and Mriza Riyaz Ul Hassan Effendi, MLC, Telangana will be taking care of Kolkata and south Bengal. Akhtar Ul Iman, floor leader from Bihar and MLA Amour along with Adil Hassan, youth president, Bihar will look after Mirshidabad, Birbhum and Nadia.

For north and south Dinajpur, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar, Shshnawaz, Jokihat MLA of Bihar and Haji Md Izhar Asfi, MLA from Kochadhaman in Bihar will be responsible, while Syed Ruknuddin Admed, MLA Baisi and Anzar Nayeemi, MLA Bahadurganj, both from Bihar will oversee the developments in Malda.

Elaborating further on the formation of the team of observers, party sources said the observers will work in the backroom. They will coordinate all the requirements in formation of the teams in Bengal.

“The observers are scheduled to arrive in Bengal from next week. They will look at the seat selections we have done and verify the list in consultations with the higher ups in Hyderabad. Once verified, they will convey to us and then the rest of the process will begin,” said Syed Zameerul Hasan, Bengal convenor, AIMIM.

Party sources said there is lot of optimism in the party after the tie-up with Abbas Siddique, who has formed a secular front. “We have ‘jot’ (alliance) with him and Siddique is the leader of the front. We have equal partnership with him. Though this is a secular front, we are aware that neither CPI(M) nor the Congress will come with us,” Hasan said.

About the seat sharing within the party and their vote share, Hasan said, “This is too early to talk about it. We will sit together and then finalise the details. We don’t think we can formalise anything on this before February-end.”

The ruling Trinamool Congress had earlier warned the Muslims in Bengal of the presence of MIM in Bengal and said the outsiders who pose as sympathisers of the Muslims in Bengal should not be trusted.

Warning the electorate of high polarisation in Bengal with the advent of MIM, CPI(M) leader and MLA Tanmoy Bhattacharya had earlier said, “If the RSS is the face of militant Hundutva, then AIMIM is the face of militant minorities. If we consider the divisive politics of majorities as dangerous, then we should also consider the divisive politics of the minorities equally risky.”

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