New Delhi, India (BBN)-Alleging involvement of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) with fundamental outfits, Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader Siddharth Nath Singh told journalists in New Delhi on Thursday that party’s chairperson and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had funded Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh.
Banerjee 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 said and added that certain newspapers both in Bangladesh and well as in India had reported the issue, reports The Hindu.
Quoting a Bangladeshi newspaper, which alleged Banerjee’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, Banerjee’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 Banerjee 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.
BBN/AS-12Sept14-6:45pm (BST)