Kozhikode: Coming out heavily against the Haritha (IUML women’s wing) leaders who were brought back into the party fold recently, Muslim League national general secretary Noorbina Rasheed said the controversy stirred by these women leaders had caused much damage to the party. The IUML was depicted as an anti-women party because of them, she stated in her facebook post.  

She also claimed that the Haritha leaders were taken back after they tendered an apology and withdrew the case they had filed with the Women’s Commission against the party’s will. 

Her facebook post read, “Some MSF and Haritha leaders, who had faced party action some time back, were taken back to the party. The party took an action against them back then on the basis of the findings of a thorough enquiry into the matter. The damage which was caused to the party by them was grave. The girls who depicted every Muslim League worker as anti-women and perverts at the Calicut Press Club are still portraying this as part of their fight. 

"Let them think about the lakhs of party workers who had to hang their heads in shame when the media in Kerala gave headlines like ‘Taliban League’. Now, they are back in the party on the basis of the apology letter they tendered to the party and the withdrawal of the case which they had filed with the Women’s Commission against the party’s will…May they do away with their feminist perceptions…

"I still remember some of them flaying the Vanitha League as ‘Kitchen League’. That time was very painful. If you go back 30 years and check the leadership of the Vanitha League, you can see so many educated women who had fought against the time to hold the green flag in their hands to strengthen their party… ‘Islamic feminism’ is an idea formulated to push Muslim girls to liberalism… People carrying this idea in their brains are against the Muslim League ideology. I pray that these leaders never do anything that would spread liberalism among the Muslim girls.”