The Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, the largest organisation of traditional Islamic clergy in Kerala mononymously known as the Samastha, has taken a dispassionate stand with regard to political party representatives attending the consecration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
“The Samastha has nothing to do with Ayodhya. The Samastha does not care if any political party, including the Congress, attends the Ayodhya temple inauguration. It will not affect the Samastha at all,” said Samastha president Syed Jifri Muthukoya Thangal.
Addressing the media in Kozhikode on Saturday, Thangal said the Ram Mandir consecration in Ayodhya was a religious matter of a community. “Political parties have the freedom to accept or decline the invite for the function. Anyway, we have nothing to do with that,” he said.
