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Mamata Banerjee has done little for Muslims: Owaisi
The Hindu
Murshidabad residents have been grappling with arsenic-related diseases, says the parliamentarian
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday charged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of doing little for Muslims of the State, and accused her of hobnobbing with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party after the riots in Gujarat in 2002. In a series of tweets, Mr Owaisi said, “Apart from saying "BJP aajayega", what exactly have you done for Bengal's Muslims? 15% of Bengal's Muslims are outside formal education (3rd highest after UP & Bihar) 80% live on less than ₹5000 38.3% in rural Bengal earn ₹2500 More than 3/4 Muslims have no land.” He tweeted that Murshidabad’s residents had been grappling with arsenic-related diseases, and sought to know if they had forfeited ‘the right to clean drinking water because Madam CM @MamataOfficial has more important games to play? You compared proud Indian Muslims to cows to be milked’. “While she was hobnobbing with RSS-BJP in 2003, we were opposing it even then. She became Minister, CM, etc since then but what did we get?” he stated. The Hyderabad parliamentarian also said that the West Bengal CM voted against a motion in Parliament to condemn the Gujarat pogrom.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.