All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi Wednesday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who in a veiled attack said the BJP is spending crores of rupees to bring in a party from Hyderabad to divide Muslim votes.
Hitting out at Mamata Banerjee, Owaisi said no man was born who could buy him with money and she should not think that the Muslim voters are her property or jagir.The AIMIM chief said Mamata’s accusations are ill founded. He advised her to worry about her home turf where so many people are leaving her party and joining BJP.Owais’s party performed well in the recently-concluded Bihar elections winning five seats in the Muslim dominated Seemanchal region in Bihar, bordering West Bengal. With bolstered confidence, AIMIM has decided to field candidates in the next year’s West Bengal assembly elections.
The West Bengal chief minister, who is apparently flustered with BJP’s aggressive campaign in the state and her old and trusted lieutenants abandoning her party to join the saffron brigade, dubbed Owaisí’s party as BJP’s team B. Acting on a mutually agreed plan BJP will eat into Hindu votes while “this Hyderabad party” will erode the Muslim votes, just like it had in the Bihar polls, Mamata alleged.Retaliating to Mamata’s allegations, Owaisi took a dig at her saying that she had so far dealt with the Mir Jaffars and Sadiqs (sycophants) and not with Muslims who speak their mind.He also asked Mamata Banerjee to take a lesson from those parties who blamed the ‘vote cutters’ for their failures.
