Bengal IUML splits over tie-up row

Nuruzzaman said in the given political situation 8220;we have decided to forge alliance with the Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee.8221;

On the issue of Trinamool Congress8217; association with the BJP, Nuruzzaman said: 8220;We feel the Congress has done more damages to the cause of minority than the BJP.8221; He felt that 8220;as long as the BJP does not take any anti-minority step, we have no problem in forming an alliance with the Trinamool Congress.8221;

He said the IUML has ceased to be party outside Kerala and 8220;there too is functioning as the B team of the Congress.8221;

Incidentally, the PML was formed in 1968 under the leadership of late A K M Hassan Uzzaman, father of Nuruzzaman, but later it merged with the IMUL.