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Muraleedharan Criticises UDF Leaders for ‘Silence’ over Kanthapuram’s Remarks on Women

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In a Facebook post, Muraleedharan accused UDF Ministers K.M. Shaji and N. Samsuddeen of tacitly endorsing Aboobacker’s views through their silence and challenged the party’s leadership to demand an apology from the cleric

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Thiruvananthapuram: There is a difference of opinion within the UDF government regarding Kanthapuram A P Abubacker Musliyar's statement that women should stay at home. Muslim League ministers K.M. Shaji and Education Minister Adv. N Shamsuddin are maintaining silence. While Congress minister K. Muraleedharan has also maintained silence on the issue, Women's Affairs Minister Bindu Krishna lashed out at Kanthapuram. This has exposed the difference…

Thiruvananthapuram: Higher Education Minister Roji M. John has come out in criticism against the statement of Samastha AP faction leader Kanthapuram AP Abubacker Musliyar. Through centuries of struggles and...

Minister Roji M. John has strongly criticized Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar's controversial remarks about women. Roji M. John said that the idea of sending women back from the public sphere to the kitchen is reactionary and unfortunate. The minister clarified in a Facebook post that women's arrival from the kitchen to the public arena was not a sudden change and that women achieved their rights through centuries of struggle and sacrifice.…

Roji M John criticized Kanthapuram's remark that women will be destroyed if they appear on the public stage. The minister commented that no one has a license to repeal constitutional equality and the idea of sending women back to the kitchen is reactionary.

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India Today broke the news in Noida, India on Monday, August 31, 2026.
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