While the affiliation, by its numerous boards, has been flagging issues associated to the PFI since its formation in 2007, in 2013 it overtly named the PFI in a decision on radical organisations.
In October 2013, the RSS’s Akhil Bharatiya Karyakarta Mandal assembly adopted a decision during which it expressed “grave concern” over the “increasing radicalization of jihadi forces, especially in the southern states of India”.
Marking the radicalization of Muslim youth, terror coaching and export modules, assaults on Hindu activists and “active collusion with anti-national Maoists and international jihadi elements”, the decision stated, “The PFI and its entrance organizations in Kerala The rise of SIMI ban must be seen on this context.
Since then, the Sangh and its allies have persistently expressed concern over the rising affect of the PFI, particularly within the context of Sangh members being focused by suspected PFI activists in Kerala. While the VHP and Bajrang Dal have protested demanding a ban on PFI, the RSS-affiliated journal ‘Organiser’ has revealed almost 300 articles, studies and editorials on PFI within the final 5 years.
The Sangh’s issues in regards to the PFI in public boards have turn into extra pronounced in recent times within the wake of the RSS and BJP’s efforts to unfold their footprints in South India, and the resultant frequent clashes with PFI staff. They additionally gained momentum after the anti-CAA protests of 2020, when the PFI was accused of being on the forefront of the protests.
PFI Office in New Delhi: Closed and Sealed. PTI
In January 2020, in his editorial written by Prafulla Ketkar, the ‘organiser’ in contrast the protest towards the CAA with the Khilafat motion and known as it anti-Hindu. “The fear created by the Communists and the Congress and manipulated by radical Islamist organizations such as the Popular Front of India is proving to be undemocratic, violent and divisive, as was the case with the Khilafat movement,” Ketkar stated. Organizer’.
In the backdrop of the hijab controversy in Karnataka, the RSS in its annual report launched in March in Gujarat raised the difficulty of “detailed schemes by a particular community to enter the government machinery”. The report, launched throughout the All India Pratinidhi Sabha assembly, stated that “religious bigotry is on the rise” within the nation underneath the guise of “constitution and religious freedom”. It known as for making “every effort with organized force” to “defeat this menace”.
More not too long ago, the VHP has been overtly demanding a ban on PFI.
After Saudi Arabia’s ban on Tablighi Jamaat in December 2021, VHP stated, “Government must also take motion on establishments and organizations like Darul Uloom Deoband and PFI which straight or not directly nourish Tablighi, Tablighi Jamaat and Ijtima ,” it stated.
In February this 12 months, the VHP and Bajrang Dal held a rally in Hyderabad over the killing of a Bajrang Dal employee in Shivamogga and demanded a ban on the PFI.
On June 16, the Bajrang Dal and the VHP staged a protest and submitted a memorandum, demanding a ban on “organizations like PFI and Tablighi Jamaat”.
2 arrested for elevating pro-PFI slogans
Two activists of the Popular Front of India have been arrested on Thursday underneath UAPA after they raised pro-PFI slogans at Kallamambalam in Thiruvananthapuram Rural Police District.
According to the police, seven PFI staff gathered at a junction in Kallambalam, elevating pro-PFI slogans after eradicating the organisation’s flag. Abdul Salim, 44, president of PFI zone, and Naseem, 38, a company employee, have been arrested. Police stated 5 different individuals have been recognized.
Meanwhile, police sealed the PFI workplace at Aluva, Periyar Valley, in Ernakulam rural district as a part of enforcement of the ban.
Earlier within the day, the Kerala authorities issued a notification empowering all district and police chiefs to take motion towards the organisation. ENS
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
