New Age Islam Special
Correspondent
23 March 2021
Already the Cong-Left Front-ISF
( Indian Secular Front led by Peerzada of Furfura Sharif Abbas Siddiqui) have
posed a threat of the division of secular votes that may lead to the defeat of
TMC candidates in Muslim majority constituency. Now the Welfare Party of India
(political Wing of Jamat Islami ) have fielded 4 candidates from Muslim
concentration assembly segments Ratua in Muslim majority district of Malda,
Suti in Muslim majority district of Murshidabad, Raghunathganj in Murshidabad
and Deganga in North 24 Parganas. These assembly constituencies have high
concentration of Muslims and so so-called secular parties and secular fronts
have eyed these constituencies, each claiming to be the true secular party. As
a result, Muslim majority constituencies may go to the BJP due to the division
of secular and Muslim votes.
ISF for example will field a
candidate from the Muslim majority constituency of 24 Parganas, Metiabruz from
where TMC has its sitting MLA. ISF, therefore may eat into Muslim votes
benefitting the BJP.
Another self-proclaimed champion
of Muslims AIMIM has decided to contest the elections independently on 15
seats. Owaisi's party will obviously field candidates in the same Muslim
majority seats of Murshidabad, Malda, North and South Dinajpur and North and
South 24 Parganas.
Thus, the five secular parties
------ Left, Congress, ISF, WPI and AIMIM are going to confuse the secular
minded Hindus and Muslim voters and cause a severe division of secular votes
paving for the victory of communal forces.
The so-called secular parties
have not learnt a lesson from the fate of the Congress and the RJD in Bihar
elections and are repeating the same mistakes in Bengal. It remains to be seen
how seriously the Muslim voters take these so-called secular parties and fronts
in the elections.
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