Trinamul plays minority card in Jalpaiguri

MANAS R. BANNERJEE, SNS, Jateshwar (Jalpaiguri), 23 July 2013: Though chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee was against the Supreme Court’s decision to conduct rural polls during the holy Ramzan month, party leaders used the religious occasion for rural poll campaigning by circulating the timetable of breakfast with her greetings among the minority people here. 

The general secretary, West Bengal Pradesh Trinamul Congress, who is also the state municipal affairs minister, circulated the timetable for ramzan. 

A section of people was happy with the timetables given to them while the chief minister was addressing a political rally at Jateshwar today. According to them, they got another timetable with a manifesto of the Trinamul Congress. “But the timetable was wrong because the timetable of Delhi was printed, which was two minutes advanced. But this is an accurate one,” they said. 

Addressing the rally today, chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee, said: “I was dead against conducting rural polls during Ramzan. I had to accept the present schedule due to the Supreme Court’s decision. Elections cannot be conducted during the Ramzan, monsoon and flood season and during Durga Puja.” 

Notably, secretary Anagrosar Muslim Sangram Samiti, Moulana Sahajuddin Mian today met the chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee at the podium and felicitated her for recognition of muajin and imam and introduction of monthly allowance for poor clerics. Moulana Sahajuddin, who is also the top leader of the Imam Muajjin Kalyan Samiti, Alipurduar proposed district, appealed to the people to work for the Trinamul Congress during polls. 

The Trinamul minority cell leader, Mr Idrish Ali, addressing the rally, came down heavily on Mira Pandey for conducting polls during Ramzan. He said: "After the rural poll results, the chief of state election commission Mira Pandey will be finished."