Jaleel’s FB post on Rahul’s candidature kicks up a row

Thiruvananthapuram | Monday | 25th March, 2019

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The name, ‘Kashmiri’ in Kashmiri Jamaat-e-Islami connotes that the Jamaat-e-Islami always has a double stance. The UDF also organized a protest meet at Edappal against the statement of Jaleel on Monday.Later, in a clarification post on FB, Jaleel said that the troll image he used was critical but harmless. The post triggered an uproar on social media and MLA V T Balram strongly condemned the minister’s act. The troll image he used along with the post asked whether Hindi-speaking migrant workers, apart from being used for menial works such as pasting posters and doing coolie jobs, were also being used as candidates by the Congress party. “Kashmiri Jamaat-e-Islami’s office was the only office of a religious organization that was raided after the Pulwama incident..