IUML backs off from Waqf drive in mosques

CM calls Samasta leaders, to hold talks

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has decided to temporarily back off from the decision of the coordination committee of various Muslim organisations to hold awareness discourses in mosques on Friday against the proposal of the Left Democratic Front government to hand over Waqf Board appointments to the Public Service Commission (PSC).

At a joint meeting of Muthavallis (managing trustees of Waqf) and office-bearers of Mahal Madrasas in Kozhikode on Thursday to chalk out strategies against the government, IUML Malappuram district president and Sunni Yuva Jana Sangham State vice-president Panakkad Syed Sadiqali Shihab Thangal said that the party leadership had not taken a decision to sensitise the Muslim community to the Wakf appointments during the Friday prayers at mosques. The decision was taken at the core committee of Muslim organisations, he said.

The decision of the committee had drawn sharp reactions and the CPI(M) had come out against using mosques for “anti-government campaign.”