By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent
Kochi: The recent attack on the professor, accused in the question paper controversy of insulting Prophet Muhammed, has put the Popular Front of India on the defensive in Kerala. The police may even reconsider its decision to give permission for the Freedom Parade that the PFI has been carrying out for the past several years.
DGP Jacob Punnoose yesterday said that the Freedom Parade could be prevented if there were fears that it may lead to communal tensions. He added that necessary measures would be taken on the matter. The PFI has been organizing the Freedom Parade in different cities of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for the past several years. The Parade is considered as a show of strength of the organisation as it is held in different cities at the same time on Independence Day.
The police should stop spreading fake stories and accusations against the Popular Front of India using the media, said P Abdul Hameed, state general secretary, in a press conference in Kozhikode. The organisation had no history fighting with the police. The accusations that blue film CDs and anti-national documents were found in the raid in the house of PFI leader were wrong, he added.
The hunt of the police in different parts of the district violating human rights has become a threat for people, accused the Ernakulam district committee of the PFI. The police are trying to frighten the Muslim community and popular organizations like the PFI. The police had raided the house of Kunnatheri Mansoor, Ernakulam district secretary of the PFI, in connection with the case and taken Mansoor’s passport, CDs of Qur’an translation, telephone book etc. But the police are reportedly spreading rumours that anti-national documents and CDs of blue films were got from his house, added the office-bearers.
The present atmosphere of suspicion regarding the organisation and its activities will indeed be a hard test for the PFI whose political party SDPI has decided to contest the panchayat elections which are due in September.