Last month, several Chapters of the Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC) organised chartered flights to bring Muslims from Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to the Malabar region of Kerala. The KMCC organisers aimed to increase the number of voters and outnumber those of the ruling party.
Its explicit goal was to defeat the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections. This racist move affected ordinary non-Muslim Keralites. Who sponsored these flights and managed this sinister move remains suspicious.
Malayalis were eager to return to their hometowns to cast their ballots in the impending Lok Sabha Elections. Their plans were shattered after numerous flights from the UAE and Gulf nations were either cancelled or rescheduled due to the flooding in mid-April.
Some meteorologists and climate specialists pointed out that cloud seeding could have enhanced heavy rains in the desert region. That technique involves implanting chemicals and natural salts such as potassium chloride — into the atmosphere to coax more rain from clouds.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has nearly 1,300 km of coastline, and around 85% of the population and over 90% of the infrastructure are located within several metres of the sea. The desert city of Dubai was soaked in 10 inches of rain in just 24 hours, the amount it typically gets in nearly two years. Rains flooded major highways and disrupted flights at Dubai International Airport.
According to the National Center of Meteorology of UAE, the Al Ain weather station recorded 254 mm of rainfall, the highest in 75 years when records began. In Oman, 20 people were killed due to flash flooding-related incidents. There was also heavy rainfall in Bahrain and parts of Saudi Arabia.
Media claimed El Nino conditions are prevalent in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and burning fossil fuels and deforestation (climate change) are to blame. The UAE emits 80 tonnes of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide per capita, compared to 14 tonnes per American head yearly. In comparison, Bharat emits next to nothing.
Expat voters took chartered flights to Kerala despite having reserved most flights from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to Kerala since early April. The goal was to increase the number of Muslim votes in Kerala so that they could defeat the BJP in this year’s Lok Sabha Elections.
Flights were provided to Muslims in the Gulf for free or at a discounted rate. Meanwhile, several political party-affiliated expatriate organisations teamed with airlines to offer reasonably priced airline tickets for overseas voters.
Even as these organisations were able to secure discounts and charter aircraft, the non-Muslim voters had to pay exorbitant full fare for the tickets. Many decided to stay back, and Keralites went to their respective polling booths on April 26.
(KMCC celebrated the ‘festival of democracy’ by sending Muslim NRIs on chartered flights to Kerala ahead of the general election. Chartered flights ferried them from Jeddah and started arriving at the Calicut International Airport in the first week of April. Other flights arrived from Abu Dhabi, Ras Al-Khaimah and Dubai.
KMCC officials admitted that a charter flight from the UAE costs around two lakh UAE dirhams (around 45 lakh rupees). Voters from northern Kerala (Malabar), especially Vadakara, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Wayanad, reached the state on ‘vote flights’, said C.E. Chakkunny, president of the Malabar Development Council (MDC).
Such shady organisations like the KMCC and MDC are allegedly fronts for the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a Congress ally in Kerala. The All India Muslim League’s (including Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Muslim League) split factions came together to establish the IUML, which is blamed for Bharat’s Partition on religious grounds.
During his Kerala visit in 1958, Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru said, “I don’t know what else the Muslim League represents, other than the sad and tragic incidents during the Partition. The Muslim League flags are not seen anywhere in India except for Kerala. The Muslim League is nothing but a party of riots & bunch of evil emotions.” In retaliation for criticising the IUML and calling it a “dead horse,” the Muslim League leaders called Nehru a Hindu fanatic.
In 1967, a seven-party coalition led by EMS Namboodiripad, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India (CPI), and the IUML took power. Under this government, the infamous decision was taken to carve parts of Palakkad and Kozhikode districts to create a Muslim-majority Malappuram district. Soon, the green communist coalition broke down as IUML joined Congress.
The IUML stayed with Congress and became a founding member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) coalition. CH Mohammed Koya was the only member of the IUML to get the Chief MiMinister’s seat, which lasted 50-odd days. To date, he remains the only Muslim Chief Minister of Kerala. His son, MK Muneer, is a prominent Muslim League politician and the Deputy Opposition Leader.
The IUML fought to preserve Muslim Personal Law and actively participated in agitations to recognise the minority character of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia University. Following the Shah Bano case maintenance lawsuit, the League initiated the agitation to remove inroads into the ‘Sharia’.
The Muslim League wants Urdu as a language, establishments of the Minority Financial Corporation, and reservations for Muslims as a minority in various educational institutions and workplaces. The party strongly supported the cause of the Babri Masjid in the Supreme Court.
Last year, while in the US, a reporter asked Rahul Gandhi about the Congress’s alliance with the Muslim League in Kerala. He replied, “The Muslim League is a completely secular party. There is nothing non-secular about the Muslim League.” Nehru’s great-grandson knows he might not get a Lok Sabha seat without IUML support.
To uphold their ‘secularism’ farce, the KMCC might have thrown in a few non-Hindus on their vote flights, but images showed an Islamist creamy layer arriving. No Hindu with an iota of self-respect would join hands with the perpetrators of the 1921 Hindu genocide in Malabar, Bharat’s Partition and the Marad ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kozhikode.
