P K Kunhalikutty elevated Muslim League general secretary

MALAPPURAM: Mr K.M. Khader Mohideen,  former MP from Tamil Nadu, is the new national president of the Indian Union Muslim League and   Mr P.K. Kunhalikutty MLA, former minister and national treasurer,  the new general secretary.   The IUML’s national committee was  reconstituted  at its executive committee meeting  in Chennai on Sunday in the wake of the death of E. Ahmed, party national president and former union minister, earlier this month. The meeting,  presided over by the party’s Kerala unit president Panakkad Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal,  also elected  Thangal as the head of the political advisory committee.  Former general secretary E.T. Muhammed Basheer MP is the new organizing secretary and  Mr P.V. Abdul Wahab   treasurer. Former MP Abdusamad Samadani will be  one of the secretaries.  

Mr Kunhalikutty’s elevation to the crucial post  in the national leadership coincides with his possible candidature in the upcoming Lok Sabha  byelection from Malappuram  which was the turf of Ahmed for long.   Mr Kunhalikutty, who  enjoys  the support of a large  section of the party leadership, will now be the key player in the national leadership.   He  has also the support of the party’s youth wing, Muslim Youth League (MYL). The state executive camp of the MYL, which   concluded in Kollam on Saturday,  had asked the party to consider Mr Kunhalikutty for the  byelection. The party state committee meeting next month will finalise the candidate. Mr Kunhalikutty had earlier expressed his willingness to contest from Malappuram and take up any job entrusted to him by the party.