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IUML goes in for restructuring

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE, MAY 30. Following its defeat in its stronghold in the Manjeri Lok Sabha constituency, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) today went in for a major restructuring of the party by creating the posts of vice-president and joint secretary.

The apparent bid to strengthen the party apparatus in the backdrop of criticism following its historic defeat in Manjeri was undertaken at the State secretariat meeting held at the League House here today.

Announcing the decision after the meeting, the IUML State general secretary, P.K. Kunhalikutty, said that the party will have two State vice-presidents, E. Ahamed, Union Minister of State for External Affairs (also the party national general secretary), and M.P. Abdusammad Samadhani, MP.

The new State joint secretaries are E.T. Muhammed Basheer, MLA and T.A. Ahmed Kabeer.

Mr. Kunhalikutty stressed the need to make the party more popular.

He said that the new posts were created for better functioning of the party.

The meeting also decided to convene district-level conventions to strengthen party activities.

The State office-bearers will attend these conventions. Mr. Kunhalikutty said in response to queries that the performance of the party and the Ministers of the party has to improve a lot. The party and Ministers will do a self-assessment, he said.

However, Mr. Kunhalikutty maintained that all has not gone against the IUML. "If anybody thinks that the party has collapsed, then they are wrong. Out of a score of Assembly seats where the United Democratic Front had a lead in the Lok Sabha polls, 13 were that of the party," he said.

Refering to criticism against the inclusion of Mr. Ahamed in the Council of Ministers, Mr. Kunhalikutty said the statements criticising the inclusion of Mr. Ahamed in the Ministry were in fact "anti-democratic". "The IUML had stood with the Congress in its ups and downs. It has proved its secular credentials.

"Moreover, Mr. Ahamed is the lone UDF representative from the State."

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