Around 2000 Muslim delegates to attend CPI(M)’s Muslim Convention in Karnataka
Besides Muslims, many Hindus and people of other communities will speak on the occasion.
Mangalore: The Karnataka unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is organising a Muslim convention in communally polarized coastal Karnataka. The event, which features some of the state’s top intellectuals as speakers, is scheduled on May 31 Tuesday, at the Kudmul Ranga Rao Town Hall in Mangalore. According to the organisers, nearly 2,000 Muslim delegates selected from different districts will attend the event.
Muneer Katipalla, the main organizer of the upcoming Muslim conference and state committee member of the CPI (M) told The News Minute, “Our message to the community has been that the sum total of the impact of Islamophobia and Hindutva is ‘economic’; it hits people in the stomach. And the political resistance to this has to be built on the basis of a fight for the equitable distribution of resources, a fight for employment, a fight against neoliberal policies that favour the Ambanis and the Adanis.”
He added that the convention is an attempt to invite Muslims to participate in larger coalitions by exposing them to fresh perspectives and new social coalitions. He told that besides Muslims many Hindus and people of other communities will speak on the occasion.
Dr K T Jaleel, MLA and former minister for Higher Education of Kerala will kick off the programme.
The first session that will start from 2 pm to 3.45 pm is entitled ‘Karnataka as the Laboratory of Communalism (Komuvadada Prayogashaleyagi Karnataka)’. Daijiworld reported.
The second session entitled ‘Situation of Muslims in Karnataka (Karnatakada Muslimara Sthithigathi)’ will be held from 4.15 pm to 5.45 pm.
