KOZHIKODE: Protests against Thavanur MLA KT Jaleel over his controversial remarks on the role of Muslims in gold smuggling and hawala cases is intensifying.
Tirurangadi mandalam committee member UA Razak of Muslim Youth League (MYL) on Monday filed a complaint with Malappuram district police chief against Jaleel, alleging that the MLA’s controversial statement over gold smuggling could incite religious hatred.
Youth League demanded that a case be registered against Jaleel.
MYL organized a march to the district police chief’s office in Malappuram to protest against Jaleel’s statement. The march turned violent when police blocked it in front of the office. MYL state president PK Firoz said that the organization will continue its protests against Jaleel in the coming days.
Welfare Party of India (WPI) district executive meeting held on Monday alleged that the MLA’s statement over involvement of Muslims in gold smuggling was an appeasement of Sangh Parivar. The meeting demanded that Jaleel clarify the data on which he based his statement.
“Jaleel has become an agent supporting Sangh Parivar’s racial agenda to criminalize Malappuram. He is spreading lies that even Sangh Parivar hesitates to tell, to overcome the crisis faced by Pinarayi Vijayan and to further personal interests. Jaleel is betraying the people of Malappuram, who elected him, for Sangh Parivar due to his submissive politics. The people of Malappuram will strongly react against this,” says a press note issued by WPI.
Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama leader Nasar Faizy Koodathai hit out at the MLA on Monday, saying religious labelling of crimes is part of Sangh Parivar’s agenda. CPM and govt are using Jaleel as a tool to appease Sangh Parivar, he added. “Even when Dara Singh proudly claimed the murder of Graham Staines as a Kurukshetra war, or when a Christian with a Bible bombed and killed innocents in Oklahoma, no one dared to label it as religious. Religion should not be used as a label for crime and terrorism,” he said.
