SILCHAR, June 7: The Review committee meeting of the AUDF scheduled from June 11 to 13 at Guwahati would be a stormy one over the issue of infighting in the Cachar district committee. Party president Badrauddin Ajmal had already suspended all activities of the district committee following a show of strength by two factions, one led by district president Anup Choudhury and the other by party MLA Ataur Rahman Majharbhuiya. Both the groups had raised a plethora of allegations against each other ranging from receiving money from the opposition to sabotage Ajmal’s victory.
Sources said, Majharbhuiya teamed up with district general secretary Altaf Hussain Majumder and youth leader Saminul Haque to corner Anup Choudhury, an advocate, from the electioneering affair. It was alleged that election conducting committee was formed by the trio at the Katigorah residence of Majharbhuiya and district committee was kept in utter darkness. It was further alleged that Majharbhuiya, Mazumder and Haque directly ignored the district committee and ran the campaigning from a makeshift office at Madhurband area. They distributed money among people who were not even associated with the party. One former ZPC member, belonging to Muslim community, was given Rs 2 lakh who later formed a forum of so-called Muslim intellectuals to support Congress candidate Sontosh Mohan Dev. Sources said, the trio did not disburse the money they received from Ajmal to the grass-root level workers. Safiqur Rahman Barabhuiya, a relative of Saminul, was given Rs 2 lakh for election expenditure in Udharband, but the booth committee of that area did not receive any money from Safiquer.
Similarly, ZP member of Sonai east, belonging to the Congress, was given Rs 9 lakh, but the money was not distributed among the grass-root level workers. Choudhury being a Hindu, was entrusted with Hindu majority, but till April 8, he did not received any payment from Majharbhuiya, it was alleged.
The sources further said that Altaf Hussain, who contested the 2006 Assembly election from Barkhola but was unsuccessful, had withdrawn Rs 18 lakh for campaigning expenditure, but the booth-level workers were deprived of any payment. It was further alleged that payments were made against vouchers showing fictitious amount. Sources said, even the district president was forced to sign in such vouchers but he refused and that invited direct challenge from the trio.
But the most serious allegation against Majharbhuiya was that he de-activated the Hindu workers of the party to campaign for Ajmal in the Hindu belt. Sources further alleged that just prior to the election, MLA Majharbhuiya along with a teacher of Silchar Town School convened a meeting of Nadwatul Tamir, an influential Islamic organization, at Sonai and announced that Nadwatul in Cachar district would support Dev. This irked the chief of the organization Moulana Tayyubur Rahman, a cleric as well as advisor of the AUDF, who rushed to Katigorah and charged Majharbhuiya.
Sources said, Choudhury had already informed party president Ajmal that he would not be able to continue as the Cachar district president if Majharbhuiya, Mazumder and Haque were tagged with the district committee. THE SENTINEL
Sources said, Majharbhuiya teamed up with district general secretary Altaf Hussain Majumder and youth leader Saminul Haque to corner Anup Choudhury, an advocate, from the electioneering affair. It was alleged that election conducting committee was formed by the trio at the Katigorah residence of Majharbhuiya and district committee was kept in utter darkness. It was further alleged that Majharbhuiya, Mazumder and Haque directly ignored the district committee and ran the campaigning from a makeshift office at Madhurband area. They distributed money among people who were not even associated with the party. One former ZPC member, belonging to Muslim community, was given Rs 2 lakh who later formed a forum of so-called Muslim intellectuals to support Congress candidate Sontosh Mohan Dev. Sources said, the trio did not disburse the money they received from Ajmal to the grass-root level workers. Safiqur Rahman Barabhuiya, a relative of Saminul, was given Rs 2 lakh for election expenditure in Udharband, but the booth committee of that area did not receive any money from Safiquer.
Similarly, ZP member of Sonai east, belonging to the Congress, was given Rs 9 lakh, but the money was not distributed among the grass-root level workers. Choudhury being a Hindu, was entrusted with Hindu majority, but till April 8, he did not received any payment from Majharbhuiya, it was alleged.
The sources further said that Altaf Hussain, who contested the 2006 Assembly election from Barkhola but was unsuccessful, had withdrawn Rs 18 lakh for campaigning expenditure, but the booth-level workers were deprived of any payment. It was further alleged that payments were made against vouchers showing fictitious amount. Sources said, even the district president was forced to sign in such vouchers but he refused and that invited direct challenge from the trio.
But the most serious allegation against Majharbhuiya was that he de-activated the Hindu workers of the party to campaign for Ajmal in the Hindu belt. Sources further alleged that just prior to the election, MLA Majharbhuiya along with a teacher of Silchar Town School convened a meeting of Nadwatul Tamir, an influential Islamic organization, at Sonai and announced that Nadwatul in Cachar district would support Dev. This irked the chief of the organization Moulana Tayyubur Rahman, a cleric as well as advisor of the AUDF, who rushed to Katigorah and charged Majharbhuiya.
Sources said, Choudhury had already informed party president Ajmal that he would not be able to continue as the Cachar district president if Majharbhuiya, Mazumder and Haque were tagged with the district committee. THE SENTINEL
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