March 02, 2011
VR Jayaraj | Kannur
The Kerala CPI(M) has alleged that Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahmed, who is also the president of Indian Union Muslim League, has close links with Islamist terrorists in Kerala and that an Islamist outfit had helped his partymen in bomb-making at Nadapuram in Kozhikode where an accidental blast had killed five Muslim League workers last weekend.
CPI(M)’s Kannur district secretary P Jayarajan MLA demanded a comprehensive probe into the alleged connections of the Union Minister with terror elements. “There is this strong allegation that Ahmed is using his position in the External Affairs Ministry to help terrorists,” Jayarajan told newsmen in Kannur on Tuesday.
In the Press conference he called in the context of Saturday’s explosion in Nadapuram, Kozhikode, the CPI(M) leader said that Ahmed had helped his relative Shafeeq of Thavakkara in Kannur, an accused in the Bangalore bombing case and the burning of Tamil Nadu State bus at Kalamassery near Kochi, to get an emergency passport.
According to the CPI(M), Ahmed’s connections with terror elements go as far as Bahrain. The Indian embassy in Bahrain had entrusted the works related to passports to an outsourcing agency run by one Fazal’ul Haq, a close friend and neighbour of Shafeeq, Jayarajan said, adding that there were allegations of terror connections against Fazal’ul Haq.
The CPI(M) leader said that certain organisations of Keralites had complained to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on their suspicions about this outsourcing agency. But information was that Ahmed had been trying to prevent any action in this regard from his own Ministry, Jayarajan alleged.
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