Nation must emulate Malappuram’s communal harmony, says Kanthapuram

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Kerala Muslim Jamaat president   Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar addressing a reception accorded to his Kerala Yatra astatine  Areekode connected  Wednesday.

Kerala Muslim Jamaat president Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar addressing a reception accorded to his Kerala Yatra astatine Areekode connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SAKEER HUSSAIN

Kerala Muslim Jamaat (KMJ) president Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar has said that the state should emulate Malappuram successful respective ways, peculiarly its tone of communal harmony and attraction for chap beings.

He was addressing a reception accorded to his Kerala Yatra astatine Areekode successful the territory connected Wednesday, the seventh time of the yatra aft it kicked disconnected from Kasargod connected January 1 raising the slogan “With Humanity”.

The yatra, taken retired up of the centenary celebrations of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, volition reason successful Thiruvananthapuram connected January 16 aft covering different districts.

Mr. Aboobacker Musliar said that the improvement and payment activities carried retired successful Malappuram with people’s information were models for the full world. However, helium lamented attempts by definite vested interests to vilify Malappuram by portraying it arsenic a territory rife with communal bias.

“Anyone who has visited Malappuram adjacent erstwhile volition recognize the reality: the warmth and tone of coexistence of its people,” helium said, urging nine to salute and follow the affirmative examples of the territory alternatively than disparage its people.

A ample assemblage attended the reception astatine Areekode, which featured a ‘centenary guard’ parade. Palestine Ambassador Abdullah Abu Shawesh inaugurated the function. KMJ caput Ponmala Abdul Khadir Musliar presided.

Apart from KMJ leaders, Aryadan Shoukath, MLA, CPI(M) Polit Bureau subordinate A. Vijayaraghavan, Indian Union Muslim League person and District Panchayat president P.A. Jabbar Haji, and Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church clergyman Fr. Thomas Kurian Thazhayil were among those who attended the function.

Earlier, speaking to mediapersons successful Malappuram, yatra vice-captains Syed Ibrahim Khaleel Bukhari Thangal and Perodu Abdurahman Saqafi highlighted the district’s improvement challenges and called for a reorganisation of definite districts.

“The request for the bifurcation of a territory should not beryllium seen done a spiritual lens. This is not an contented unsocial to Malappuram,” said Mr. Thangal. “Given the colonisation maturation crossed the State implicit the past 5 decades, respective districts request to beryllium reorganised and bifurcated,” helium said.

They besides demanded that Government Medical College Hospital astatine Manjeri beryllium upgraded with amended facilities and that Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University and the Aligarh Muslim University Centre astatine Perinthalmanna beryllium developed with improved infrastructure. They besides called for an extremity to determination acquisition disparities and effectual measures to code wildlife-related problems successful the eastbound parts of Malappuram.

Published - January 07, 2026 08:43 p.m. IST

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