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Monday, June 1, 2009

AUDF factions clash over party office in Silchar

SILCHAR, June 1: Two warring factions of AUDF’s Cachar unit today virtually took to the streets as its central committee general secretary Brajalal Rabidas led a group of party workers to literally capture the district office.

They broke the lock of the party office and later took charge of the office. AUDF district president Anup Choudhury, who was in Guwahati for his professional duties, told The Sentinel that he would lodge a defamation suit against party MLA Ataur Rahman Majharbhuiya for his allegation that Choudhury had sabotaged the winning chance of party supremo Badruddin Ajmal in Silchar.

Majharbhuiya who was also the general secretary of the central committee yesterday told the mediapersons here that Choudhury and Rabi Das had planned to launder lakhs of rupees from Ajmal during the election.

But, Majharbhuiya had spoiled their plans though Choudhury siphoned off Rs 2 lakh and Rabidas Rs 1 lakh, but subsequently they clandestinely worked against the party.

Majharbhuiya, along with party leaders like Shyam Sundar Choudhury, Altaf Hussain Majumdar and Dibakar Bhattacharjee alleged that during the election district president Anup Choudhury and Rabidas placed a budget of Rs 62 lakh for campaigning but Ajmal sensing foul intention deployed his company’s accountants Abbas Ali and Bapan Mazumdar to disburse money.

This infuriated Choudhury and he stooped to anti-party activities. Majharbhuiya said, workers and supporters had lost faith in the current district committee and wanted to replace it with Majharbhuiya as the district president.

Indicating that he would very soon file a Rs 10 crore defamation case against Majharbhuiya, Anup Choudhury told over telephone from Guwahati that he was forced regularly by Majharbhuiya to put his signature in the payment vouchers.

Lakhs of rupees had also been laundered by Majharbhuiya, Katigorah MLA Altaf and party youth leader Sominul Haque Choudhury.

He earlier appealed to the party workers not to join in the Sunday’s meet at Berenga. On Saturday, a meeting of the district committee vowed to remove Majharbhuiya and his followers from the affairs of the committee.

They even clarified that the district committee should not be blamed for Ajmal’s defeat as Majharbhuiya was solely responsible to this. Majharbhuiya yesterday bounced back with an open challenge to Choudhury labelling charges of sabotage and corruption against him.

Meanwhile, when contacted, Majharbhuiya who was also in Guwahati, told The Sentinel that Rabidas led a group of boys from Agradoot club and wanted to take charge of the party office but when AUDF workers appeared there, the miscreants fled the scene.

Majharbhuiya also made it clear that they would not lodge any complaints with the police and maintained that Rabidas with the strength of some youths, who were not even the party’s ordinary members, wanted to blackmail the party leadership, but this would not be tolerated any more. THE SENTINEL

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