The Panakkad Qazi Foundation is aimed at strengthening the ideals of the Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) State president Panakkd Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal has said.
He was delivering a speech at a meeting of the foundation held here on Saturday. This comes against the backdrop of speculations that the organisation, led by the Panakkad Thangal family which has been leading the IUML for long, is an attempt to weaken the Sunni Mahallu Federation, another outfit under the Samastha, the Sunni scholars’ forum.
‘Mahallu’ committees are influential Muslim social organisations centred around mosques. The foundation is being set up to oversee the activities of those mosques over which the Thangal family has jurisdictional authority. Trustees and other functionaries of the committees spread across various districts in Kerala and Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu were present at the meeting.
