Kerala: UDF-Congress candidate makes use of clergymen’ pictures with out permission

Amidst ongoing meeting elections in Kerala, a poster controversy has erupted in Kalpathy, Palakkad. UDF-Congress candidate Shafi Parambil’s posters grew to become the centre of the controversy as they featured two Brahmin temple clergymen. The posters and huge flex boards have been seen all throughout the city, indicating that the temple clergymen supported Parambil. The Congress emblem was additionally prominently seen on the poster which was seen in Kerala. Notably, Bharatiya Janata Party’s E Sreedharan can be contesting from Palakkad.
The two clergymen of Sree Visalakshi Samedha Viswanatha Swamy temple at Kalpathy in Palakkad have now come ahead and acknowledged that UDF’s sitting MLA Shafi Parambil used their images with out permission. The clergymen mentioned they have been shocked to see the posters and flex boards that includes them throughout the city.
പാലക്കാട്:UDF സ്ഥാനാർഥി ഫോട്ടോ ദുരുപയോഗം ചെയ്തതിനെതിരെ കൽ‌പാത്തി ക്ഷേത്ര പൂജാരികൾ. തങ്ങളുടെ അറിവോ സമ്മതമോ കൂടാതെയാണ് പ്രചാരണത്തിന് ഷാഫി പറമ്പിൽ തങ്ങളുടെ ഫോട്ടോ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന് കാല്പത്തി വിശ്വനാഥ സ്വാമി ക്ഷേത്രത്തിലെ പൂജാരികൾ. #KeralaElections #Kerala #palakkad pic.twitter.com/mY3KtpLuhK— Duryodhan ❁ 🇮🇳 (@duryodan_) April 5, 2021
While emphasizing the truth that their images have been used with out their information or content material, they mentioned, “We greet all people who come to the temple. We treat the visitors equally as part of our ‘dharma’. As public servants, more so as acharyas, we are supposed to be impartial. Many friends and devotees of Kalpathy had called us over the phone and asked us if we are supporting any party. The callers also indirectly alluded to the fact that such acts were against our dharma,” the clergymen mentioned.
Interestingly, Parambil was made the Kerala Youth Congress president in 2020. Before that, Parambil had brazenly voiced his criticism of the LDF authorities and even the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).
The voting for all Kerala meeting seats is going on on April 6. The counting will happen on May 2. Congress has put all its weight behind the state of Kerala and have nearly as good as deserted campaigning in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry. In Kerala, the Congress get together appears to imagine that they’ve a greater probability of successful. Yesterday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday had appealed to the folks of Kerala to vote for the United Democratic Front (UDF) alliance within the meeting elections within the state and “strengthen the Congress nationally”.
It is pertinent to notice that the Congress get together can be in alliance with Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) for the 2021 Kerala meeting elections. Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which claims to be born after Indian Independence in 1948, is really an off-shoot of Pakistan founder and Islamist Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML).  
The Indian Union Muslim League has been notoriously identified for flaring up communal incidents within the state of Kerala. The get together was discovered concerned within the planning in addition to the execution of the brutal Marad bloodbath in Kerala in 2003 as per the report of Justice Thomas P Joseph Commission which was set as much as examine the incident. The report had declared the bloodbath as “a clear communal conspiracy, with Muslim fundamentalist and terrorist organisations involved”.
Further, in 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a recent First Information Report (FIR) in reference to the probe and had named Indian Union Muslim League leaders P.P. Moideen Koya and Moyeen Haji as an accused of funding, conspiring and executing the riots.
The victory of Rahul Gandhi within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency is essentially attributed to the alliance of the Congress get together with the IUML, who consolidated Muslim votes in favour of the Gandhi-scion.