Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader Siddharth Nath Singh on Thursday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had funded Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, reports Indian daily The Hindu on Friday.
Siddharth Singh said certain newspapers —both in Bangladesh and well as in India —had carried reports on the issue, the report added.
Quoting a Bangladeshi newspaper, which alleged Ms. 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).”
He 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.
Singh said that had Mamata been innocent, she would have denied it and filed a defamation suit against the media houses.
The Trinamool MP Hasan, however, dismissed the allegations made by Singh. He said that he has no links with the organisation and is contemplating filing a legal suit against the BJP leader.
Source: Prothom Alo
