NCP leader Zeeshan Siddique vows to continue his father's legacy

NCP leader Zeeshan Siddique on Friday promised to continue the legacy of his father Baba Siddique who was shot dead earlier this month and claimed that his party would win a recordbreaking majority in the upcoming Maharashtra Elections 2024 PTI reportedAfter the NCP announced him as its candidate from the Bandra East constituency Zeeshan said to PTI that in these difficult times Deputy CM Ajit Pawar senior leaders Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare believed in himIt was an emotional moment for my family and when people who were friends played games with us Ajitdada kept his word believed in me and the Bandra East constituencys demand to see me as an MLA I will fight elections and fulfil my fathers dreamIn the 2019 Maharashtra elections Zeeshan had won the Bandra East seat on a Congress ticket he was then suspended by the Congress for crossvoting in the recent legislative council elections Earlier this year his father and former Congress leader Baba Siddique had crossed over to NCP a constituent of the ruling Mahayuti coalition PTI reportedBaba Siddique was gunned down outside Zeeshans office in Bnadra on October 12 Till now the police have arrested eleven individuals in connection to the killingMy fathers absence will always be felt My sister and I are unmarried and he would ask us to get married and give him grandchildren but we didnt think something like this would happen We will continue his fight I believe he will get justice and my family will get justice said ZeeshanThe MLA vowed to continue his fathers legacy and his work for the societyMy father was a great man and had a following world over After his murder I received thousands of messages like Baba bhai had paid my daughters fees and someone said he had paid for their mothers treatment We will fight the elections by taking all the love and blessings my father received I believe we will win with a majority and have a recordbreaking victory he saidZeeshan criticised the Congress party for not being secular and claimed that the party did not give seats to Muslim candidatesFor the first time I saw there was no Muslim in the upper house and now the NCP nominated a Muslim Ajitdada is a leader who takes along people from every group and religion and is actually secular There is a party that was not secular but has called itself secular overnight like the Shiv Sena UBT This is not secularismZeeshan further said that he was not sure if he was the target for the shooters since the murder happened outside his officeI dont know if I was the target as people and media have said it happened outside my office If this was the case then even in his final moments my father protected me and if I am alive it must be because I need to protect people and fight for them he said to PTIThe NCP leader also said that he has worked for Bandra East for the last five years and promised to complete the pending tasksWe will show them voters the work done and the sacrifice my family has made We will tell them about the issues in the areas of Gareeb Nagar and Bharat Nagar and how we worked to protect peoples homes he saidHe claimed that the NCP will have a recordbreaking victory from Bandra East PTI reportedElections for the 288 assembly seats of Maharashtra are scheduled to be held on November 20 and the vote counting to be held on November 23With inputs from PTI