More than a dozen BJP leaders and employees in Lakshadweep on Friday resigned from the celebration in protest in opposition to the submitting of nominations. treason cost in opposition to the island and filmmaker Ayesha Sultana.
The Kavaratti police had registered a sedition case in opposition to Sultana based mostly on a criticism by BJP Lakshadweep unit chief C Abdul Khader Haji. The complainant referred to Sultana’s remarks throughout a dialogue on a Malayalam TV information channel wherein she had referred to the UT administrator Patel Dust as a “bio-weapon”. associated to dialogue controversial proposal of the UT Administrator, who has public protest broke out on the islands.
In his resignation letter, BJP functionaries mentioned Haji’s allegations in opposition to Sultana had been “false” and aimed to destroy the way forward for him and his household. He defended her by saying that she was solely talking up for the rights of the individuals on the islands. The leaders additionally mentioned that the whole BJP unit was conscious of the “enormity” of administrator Patel’s “anti-democratic, anti-people and dreadful” insurance policies.
Those who resigned from the celebration included BJP state secretary Abdul Hamid Mullipura, Waqf board member Ummul Kulus Puthiyapura, Khadi board member Saifullah Pakkioda, Chetlat unit secretary Jabir Salihath Manzil and a bunch of celebration employees.
There is large outrage within the BJP unit in Lakshadweep Patel’s proposal These embrace a ban on the sale of beef and cow slaughter, a ban on contesting native physique elections for greater than two kids, sweeping modifications in land-use insurance policies and possession, and weakening of the COVID-19 protocols, which allowed the unfold of infections. on the islands.
Earlier this week, the islanders below the banner of ‘Save Lakshadweep Forum’ went on a 12-hour starvation strike to protest Patel’s insurance policies. The discussion board expressed solidarity with the filmmaker Sultana, who hails from Chetlat Island.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
