Muslim organisations in Kerala are divided over the Union Home Ministry’s ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI).
Panakkad Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal, State president, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), said in a video released from Dubai that his party had always opposed fundamentalist, communalist, and extremist organisations. The government had done what it was supposed to do. He also said such legal actions should be consistent as well.
However, party general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty, Deputy Leader of the Opposition, and K.M. Shaji, State secretary, said prohibiting the organisation would not help. M.K. Muneer, IUML MLA, welcomed the ban.
