'Mamata funded Jamaat with Saradha money'
Alleging involvement of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) with fundamental outfits, Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader Siddharth Nath Singh told that the party’s chairperson and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had funded Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh.
Mamata sent money taken from the scam-tainted Saradha Group to the outfit in exchange for its help to influence voters in Bengal and win elections, Singh told journalists on Thursday and added that certain newspapers both in Bangladesh and well as in India had reported the issue, The Hindu reported on Friday.
Quoting a Bangladeshi newspaper, which alleged Mamata’s relations with the terrorist outfit, Singh said: “Mamata has a relationship with Jamaat-e-Islami… The story elaborates how the money from Saradha group was stuffed into bags, smuggled into Bangladesh and the BSF’s activity was manned by newly-elected All India Trinamool MP Ahmed Hassan Imran [founder of Bengal branch of the Students Islamic Movement of India].”
Singh said as per the Bangladeshi report, Mamata’s links with the Saradha Group went back to 2010 when she was the Railway Minister and had used the money to win the 2011 Vidhan Sabha elections and 2014 Lok Sabha election.
He said that had Mamata been innocent, she would have denied it and filed a defamation suit against the media houses.
The Trinamool MP, however, dismissed the allegations made by Singh. Hasan said that he has no links with the organisation and is contemplating filing a legal suit against the BJP leader.
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