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Stating that Arabi Malayalam was the most used script during 19th century, Maliakkal said that even Chelakkodan Ayisha, the brand ambassador of Kerala’s first literacy movement, learned Arabi Malayalam before she started learning Malayalam.N K Jameel Ahamed, researcher in Arabi Malayalam, said that it was absurd to term Arabi Malayalam as a language of Muslims. However, the script used in the graffiti was Arabi Malayalam , a variant form of the Arabic script. Arabi Malayalam is such an attempt to write Malayalam in Arabic. An Arab person may be able to read Arabi Malayalam, but, may not be able to comprehend. They also said that the graffiti has lot of spelling mistakes.Other than Malayalam and Arabi Malayalam, M B Rajesh’s campaign team has used Tamil and English to paint graffitis in Palakkad constituency..