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Cultural collective for M.K. Muneer

Kozhikode: IUML leader M.K. Muneer has always been at war with vested interests and hence his winning the election was the need of all similar minded people, writer Punathil Kunhabdulla said.

He was speaking at a programme organised here on Monday by ‘Saamskaarika Koottayma,' a collective of writers and cultural leaders formed to make their political stand clear in the coming Assembly election. Praising Mr. Muneer's contributions as a legislator, Mr. Kunhabdulla said he had also been instrumental in giving a number of “good roads and bridges” to the people of the State when he was the Minister for Public Works. Mr. Muneer is contesting as the UDF candidate from the Kozhikode-South Assembly constituency this time.

Writer Balachandran Vadakkedath said the Left Democratic Front (LDF) led by the CPI(M) was trying to create delusions in society by hiding the realities from them.

He also alleged that the LDF had inflicted “serious injuries” on political freedom, democracy and humanism in the State during the last five years. “This election should be a means to reinstate in the State all what we have lost during last few years,” he said.

Alleging that many writers and cultural activists had to face physical and verbal threat from the CPI(M) when the party was in power, Mr. Balachandran stated that it was practicing “political feudalism”, threatening all those who raised a dissenting voice. Many writers and cultural activists, who are members of the conclave, spoke on the occasion.

Roshan Bijili was the moderator of the programme.

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