Don’t give communal colour to Lakshadweep protests: Islanders
The trials and tribulations of the residents of Lakshadweep rarely find place in the media as they live away from the mainland.
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A fishing boat which was damaged in the Cyclone Tauktae that hit the island last week. The fishermen couldn’t move the boat to safety as the island administration has demolished their sheds.
Express News Service
KOCHI: The support they enjoy on social media platforms for the #SaveLakshadweep campaign has come as a pleasant surprise to the residents of the archipelago. On April 28, the island administration razed the sheds built by fishermen along the coastline to keep their boats and fishing gear safe
IUML Workers See a Saviour in Pinarayi Vijayan, Question Party for Poll Debacle Hopping mad at the jumping leader
As the Left Democratic Front led by Pinarayi Vijayan returns to power with a thumping majority, critical voices are gaining momentum inside the Indian Union Muslim League, second largest constituent of the opposition United Democratic Front.
IUML workers are taking en masse to social media to confront the leadership, especially national general secretary P.K Kunhalikkutty. Party leaders too, such as former education minister P.K Abdurrab in a long Facebook post, have criticised the poll strategies it devised in the runup to the election.
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Party alleges move to offer discriminatory voting rights to overseas Indians
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IUML State president Panakkad Sayyid Hyderali Shihab Thangal, party national president K.M. Kader Mohideen and party general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty at the venue of the party national Secretariat meeting in Kozhikode on Saturday.
Party alleges move to offer discriminatory voting rights to overseas Indians
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) national secretariat demanded that all NRIs across the world should be allowed to cast their votes in the country.
A resolution adopted by the secretariat, which met here on Saturday, demanded that voting right should be ensured to all NRIs living in all continents. The secretariat alleged that there was an effort behind the curtain to offer discriminatory voting rights to overseas voters that would deny the NRIs in the Gulf countries of the right to vote.