IUML cant compromise with Jamaat ideology
KOZHIKODE: Striking a different note on the UDF-Welfare Party election understanding, IUML leader M K Muneer, MLA, said his party can never compromise with the ideology of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the parent organisation of the Welfare Party. Speaking to a Malayalam TV channel, Muneer said he has no hesitation in declaring even in the time of election campaign that there are fundamental differences with the Jamaat. We have spoken and written against the Jamaat and we or they (the Jamaat) do not denounce what we said, he said. It may be recalled that the UDF has struck local-level understanding with the Welfare Party in the ensuing local body elections. IUML state president Panakkad Syed Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal himself has attested the understanding with the Welfare Party. Muneer said the Welfare Party is supporting the UDF in certain places and that it cannot be construed as a political alliance. The CPM, which accepted the support of the Jamaat, is indulging in a campaign completely forgetting the past, he said. The UDF didnt do anything that the CPM did in the past. We have a strong approach to the Jamaat, he said. Muneers remarks came at a time when the IUML-Jamaat relationship developed into a full-fledged alliance at least in some constituencies.
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