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Congress more communal than it appears: Zeeshan Siddique
Updated On: 23 February, 2024 07:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
Zeeshan said it was wrong on party’s part if it removed him because his father had joined NCP
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The MLA talked about Rahul Gandhi’s team’s “rude behaviour” during the Bharat Jodo Yatra. File pic/Ashish Rane
Zeeshan Siddique, who was sacked as the chief of Mumbai Youth Congress on Wednesday, hit back at the party. He said the Congress wore a facade of secularism and did not want to be with minorities, the Muslims in particular. “There is more communalism in the Congress than any other party. There is hypocrisy in the Congress. Muslims are not happy with the Congress,” he said during a press conference on Thursday.
The youngest MLA in Maharashtra is one of the four Congress legislators from Mumbai. The party has three Muslim MLAs in the city. Zeeshan recalled he was troubled all along since 2019 by the senior Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders who were part of the MVA. “I have worked for many years and won three organisational elections. I was not nominated for the post. Yet, when they removed me they did not inform me officially,” he said.
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