By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Kozhikode: The leaders of Muslim League and Jamaat e Islami Hind yesterday held talks in Kozhikode. The leaders discussed about different issues like the unity of Muslim organizations, problems in the education field in Malabar, issues related to the Waqf Board etc. The talks are relevant as the elections to the local self-government institutions are approaching.
The Muslim League state general secretary PK Kunhalikkutty, national secretary MP Abdussamad Samadani, MK Muneer and KPA Majeed, and the Jamat state Ameer T Arifali, assistant ameers Shaikh Muhammed Karakunnu and MI Abdul Azeez, general secretary MK Muhammedali and political secretary Hameed Vanimel were present at the talks held reportedly in the house of League leader PV Abdul Vahab in Kozhikode.
The leaders discussed about the scope of different organizations working together on different issues, said T Arifali after the talks. The Jamaat will be in the field of election raising the slogan of corruption-free rule and people-friendly development. The organization will cooperate with the like-minded in the matters. However, Arifali added that the talks held with the League leaders needed not be related to any election deal. He said that the approach of the CPI (M) and the Industries Minister in the Kinalur road issue has not changed the value-based approach of the Jamaat towards the Left Front. However, the organization would hold talks with different parties before taking a decision for the next elections.
Unlike the earlier times when it supported candidates of different parties, the Jamaat gave complete support to the Left Democratic Front in the last Assembly elections. In the last general elections also, it supported only two candidates (one of which was League leader ET Muhammed Basheer in Ponnani constituency) of the United Democratic Front while supporting all the other 18 candidates of the LDF. The League and the Jamaat have sat together several times in the past also on different matters such as the unity of Muslim organizations. The recent talks are seen in the background of the Kinalur road issue in which the Jamaat, Solidarity Youth Movement and the League are standing together in the protest of the people against the government decision to construct a road evicting many people.