Mamata Banerjee sends Muslim leader to Nuh to 'comfort Muslims spending sleepless nights' after anti-Hindu attack

Nuh, Aug 23: After a radical Muslim mob attacked Hindus in a procession on 31st July, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent her party’s new Rajya Sabha member Samirul Islam to Haryana’s Nuh district to "comfort" local people, especially the Muslim community who have been spending “sleepless nights".

 

TMC’s new Rajya Sabha pick Samirul Islam also chairs the West Bengal Migrant Workers’ Welfare Board. Regarding his visit, he claimed that he met with at least 100 people, including Muslim clerics, and migrant workers from various states. He also added that he visited multiple places in Nuh.

 

Islam asserted that he came to Nuh at the dictate of Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee who according to him is "concerned about the plight of the local Muslim community living in distress and spending sleepless nights".

 

 

Islam said, "I came to Nuh following an instruction from our chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is really concerned about the plight of the migrant labourers, especially Muslims, who are spending sleepless nights. The migrant community is still in a panic. Through me, they sent a request to the chief minister urging her to stand by them."

 

Following his Nuh visit, he was directed to submit a detailed report to Mamata Banerjee shortly after his return from Delhi where he took the oath of Rajya Sabha on the 21st of August.

 

As per a report in Telegraph, a Trinamool representative argued that sending Samirul to Nuh was part of a larger strategy of Mamata Banerjee to send out a comforting message to the minority communities, who predominantly are considered as their vote bank. So, the aim of these visits to riot-hit areas was to keep the voterbank safe.

 

 

Communal violence took place after vehicles were burnt and stones pelted at the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s shobha yatra as clashes erupted between two communities in the Muslim-majority region of Mewat in Haryana. It should be noted that the violence happened during a Hindu religious procession on the auspicious Monday of the Shravan month. Tensions escalated in Haryana’s Mewat region following an incident on Monday where stones were thrown at the Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Religious Mewat Yatra.

 

Stones were pelted and vehicles were burnt causing a huge loss whereas thousands of Hindus were held as hostages and several other Hindus had to hide. In retaliation, hundreds of illegal construction were demolished by Haryana government.

 

Over 200 people have been arrested and more than 60 FIRs have been registered in Nuh so far in connection with July 31 violence.