Bengal Election 2026: Why Mamata Fears ISF's Abbas Siddiqui More Than The Left-Congress

TMC supremo and Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee; ISF founder and cleric Abbas Siddiqui.

Source : PTI

In Bengal's politics, Mamata Banerjee has always known her real battles are not just with Delhi or the BJP; it is often with challengers rising from within Bengal's own soil. As the 2026 assembly election edges closer, one name troubles her camp more than the weary Left or Congress: Peerzada Abbas Siddiqui of Furfura Sharif. Siddiqui, cleric and politician, didn't build the Indian Secular Front (ISF) out of thin air. He tapped into old wounds — Muslims, Dalits, the poor who felt unseen by