The inauguration of the silver jubilee of the India Muziris and Heritage Centre in Kozhikode on Saturday, which was envisaged as a platform to unite people of varying ideologies, seemed not to have yielded the desired result as Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama president Syed Muhammed Jifri Muthukoya Thangal, the chief guest, failed to turn up for the event which was attended by Goa Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai.
“Thangal backed out of the event claiming that he did not want to create unnecessary controversies,” Attakoya Pallikkandy, patron of the India Muziris and Heritage Centre, told The Hindu.
The other invited guests such as Thottathil Raveendran, MLA, and musician Kaithapram Damodaran also failed to turn up.
