Islampur is already a police district where a Superintendent of Police is appointed. AIMIM is already vocal about the fact that Muslim populated areas are given only police stations and not other facilities.
Uttar Dinajpur: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday snubbed TMC MLA Abdul Karim Chowdhury for demanding that Islampur, which he represents, be separated from Uttar Dinajpur and be made a separate district at an administrative review meeting. She clearly rejected the demand.
Terming Abdul Karim’s attitude as “cheap”, a visibly annoyed Mamata Banerjee, asked the Islampur MLA to concentrate on working for the people instead.
She said, “You see how big that area is. You have won the elections, now work for the people. That (a separate Islampur district) will not happen now”.
She goes on to say, “If the MLAs think they will speak whatever they want, then I will not allow the legislators to speak…They will tell me to make a district in their house”.
Astonishingly, she said if the public representatives are allowed to speak, they speak like that.
Though, the public representatives are meant to speak for the people who have voted to speak for them.
It’s worth mentioning that the 10th time MLA Abdul Karim Chowdhury is the senior political leader and said to be the founder member of the TMC.
People from his constituency have shown anger on social media after Mamata’s misbehavior with Chaudhary.
Interestingly Islampur is already a police district where a Superintendent of Police is appointed.
AIMIM is already vocal about the fact that Muslim populated areas are given only police stations and not other facilities.