Forum offers legal help to activist

Kochi: The core committee of the Save Lakshadweep

Forum

(SLF) formed by all parties has decided to provide legal assistance to filmmaker and

activist

Aisha Sultana who was booked for sedition. BJP representatives in the forum raised an objection to the decision.

SLF is also planning to observe a ‘Black Day’ on Monday to protest administrator Praful Khoda Patel’s visit to the islands by wearing black masks and putting up black flags, SLF said in a statement.

SLF has, however, refrained from ousting BJP from the group though several forum members have sought for the party’s removal from the forum after it filed a complaint against Sultana. The forum’s core-committee decided that it wouldn’t be ideal to remove the party from the forum as the central objectives of the forum and the party were compatible.

SLF said the forum’s agenda is clear and that includes rolling back the draft regulations, withdrawal of all anti-people orders of the administration and the calling back of the administrator. BJP representatives raised an objection to the demand that the administrator be called back.

The forum urged the islanders to be watchful of certain groups which are trying to give a religious angle to the issue. The core-committee also directed every Dweep-level committee to collect evidence for the formal objections submitted by the islanders against the draft regulations.


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