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Four Pakistans Will Be Created If India's 30% Muslims Unite, Says TMC Leader, Sparks Row
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West Bengal, 26 March 2021 7:24 AM GMT
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After his comments received criticism, TMC leader Sheikh Alam said, “I never meant we wanted to build Pakistan. All I said was if they threaten us Muslims, we too are powerful." The TMC leader said he was "misquoted".
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Alam, on Thursday, March 25, sparked a massive row after he said that "four Pakistan" can be created if India's "30% Muslims come together".
BJP leader Amit Malviya, the party's co-in charge for West Bengal, tweeted a video that showed the TMC leader purportedly making the controversial remarks.
Malviya claimed that Alam made the remarks at Basa para, Nanoor in Birbhum assembly constituency. "
"He obviously owes his allegiance to (chief minister) Mamata Banerjee… Does she endorse this position?" Malviya asked in a tweet on Thursday.
"TMC leaders like Sheikh Alam have the audacity to dream of 4 Pakistan because of Mamata Banerjee's brazen appeasement politics over the last 10 years. She reduced the majority community in WB to second-grade citizens, where they had to seek court approval even for Durga visarjan!" he tweeted.
In the video, Alam can be heard saying: "We minorities are 30%. The rest is 70%. They (BJP) think they will come to power (in Bengal) with this 70%. They should be ashamed…if 30% of minorities unite…if India's Muslims unite, four Pakistan can be created. Where will India's 70% go?"
After his comments received criticism, Alam told News18, "I never meant we wanted to build Pakistan. All I said was if they threaten us Muslims, we too are powerful." The TMC leader said he was "misquoted".
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