By Express press service

KOZHIKODE: Why does Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan insist on his wife wearing trousers when they go abroad and why can’t he wear a saree instead of dictating his wife’s dress, a asked IUML Secretary of State Dr. MK Muneer.

Addressing a session on “Religion, Marxism and Atheism” at the Veru (Roots) program organized by MSF here on Sunday, he said anti-religious ideology is smuggled into schools in the name of gender neutrality. This is similar to the introduction of the text “Mathamillatha Jeevan” into the school curriculum when the LDF government was in power earlier, he said.

“As part of the introduction of gender neutrality, boys and girls at the Balussery school were asked to wear trousers and a shirt. Why can’t it be the other way around and why can’t they ask boys to wear churidar,” he asked. There is patriarchy even in places where gender neutrality has been introduced. “It is the Marxist strategy that is planned behind the curtain,” he said.

In his address, social activist Aasif Mujtaba said the country’s Muslims are mired in “electoral irrelevance” as the Center’s largest political party does not have a single representative in both houses of the Parliament.

He said the BJP did not field a single Muslim candidate in the last assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the largest Muslim-inhabited state. “What started as electoral marginalization translated into electoral irrelevance,” he said.

Opening the conference in the morning, IUML General Secretary PK Kunhalikutty said that the LDF government had become completely unpopular, as evidenced by the result of Thrikakkara’s indirect poll. The LDF could score a victory in the last parliamentary elections by making smart use of the situation during the Covid pandemic.

KOZHIKODE: Why does Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan insist on his wife wearing trousers when they go abroad and why can’t he wear a saree instead of dictating his wife’s dress, a asked IUML Secretary of State Dr. MK Muneer. Addressing a session on “Religion, Marxism and Atheism” at the Veru (Roots) program organized by MSF here on Sunday, he said anti-religious ideology is smuggled into schools in the name of gender neutrality. This is similar to the introduction of the text “Mathamillatha Jeevan” into the school curriculum when the LDF government was in power earlier, he said. “As part of the introduction of gender neutrality, boys and girls at the Balussery school were asked to wear trousers and a shirt. Why can’t it be the other way around and why can’t they ask boys to wear churidar,” he asked. There is patriarchy even in places where gender neutrality has been introduced. “It is the Marxist strategy that is planned behind the curtain,” he said. In his address, social activist Aasif Mujtaba said the country’s Muslims are mired in “electoral irrelevance” as the Center’s largest political party does not have a single representative in both houses of the Parliament. He said the BJP did not field a single Muslim candidate in the last assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the largest Muslim-inhabited state. “What started as electoral marginalization translated into electoral irrelevance,” he said. Opening the conference in the morning, IUML General Secretary PK Kunhalikutty said that the LDF government had become completely unpopular, as evidenced by the result of Thrikakkara’s indirect poll. The LDF could score a victory in the last parliamentary elections by making smart use of the situation during the Covid pandemic.