Y’day, TMC leader Sheikh Alam, giving a speech in Basa para, Nanoor, in Birbhum AC said, if 30% Muslims in India come together, then 4 Pakistan can be formed…
He obviously owes his allegiance to Mamata Banerjee… Does she endorse this position?
Do we want a Bengal like that? pic.twitter.com/YjAeSzhH5P
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 25, 2021
A West Bengal TMC leader has made the sensational assertion that if Muslims in India band together, they will form four Pakistans. TMC chief Sheikh Alam said at an election rally that Muslims make up 30% of the population and the rest make up 70%. He said that if the country’s 30 percent Muslim population banded together, Hindus would have nowhere to go.
In his tweet, Malviya said: “Yesterday, TMC leader Sheikh Alam, giving a speech in Basa para, Nanoor, in Birbhum AC said, if 30% Muslims in India come together, then 4 Pakistan can be formed… He obviously owes his allegiance to Mamata Banerjee… Does she endorse this position? Do we want a Bengal like that?”
Sheikh Alam said while campaigning for TMC candidate Bidhan Chandra Majhi in Nanoor constituency in Birbhum, West Bengal, that the BJP should be ashamed of themselves because they would come to power with the support of 70% of voters.
“We form government with 30% of the vote; they form government with 70% of the vote; they should be ashamed of themselves.” We may form four Pakistans if 30% of Indians band together. If all the Muslims in India move to one side of the country, where will the rest of the population, 70 percent of the people go?” asked the TMC chief.
When asked about an altercation in the city, the TMC leader said that they could have told their boys to eliminate certain people in five minutes if they so desired. ‘They would have beaten them with sticks, but we didn’t because we trust Mamata Banerjee,’ he said.
Trinamool Congress is facing a tough challenge from BJP in West Bengal in the assembly elections. Moreover, the party is also staring at possible spilt in Muslim votes, as Congress, left and Indian Secular Front alliance is contesting the elections separately, resulting in a three-corner fight. Furfura peer Abbas Siddique led ISF holds considerable influence among Muslims in the state, and the TMC leader’s comments appears to be an attempt to attract Muslims votes by communalising the polls.
Sheikh Alam is clearly attempting to evoke Muslim sentiments by talking about more Pakistans with Indian Muslims. Now TMC sees polarising the elections as the only way of retaining power in the state.
It may be noted that as per official records, the Muslim population in India is around 15%, but the TMC leader is saying that it is 30%.
