Vadakara: LDF candidate of Vadakara constituency, KK Shailaja, has said that she still believes it was UDF workers who had played behind the circulation of messages wreaking of communal contents against her during the election campaign. While speaking to reporters at Vadakara on Saturday, she has lashed out against UDF candidate Shafi Parambil and the UDF workers for indulging in communal campaign. LDF had alleged that an audio message demanding the voters ‘not to vote for Shailaja, who is a kafir’ and social media posts containing the same message, were widely circulated during the last days of the campaign. 

“I believe that, it is the congress workers who had played behind these communal messages. I have the screen shots of pages in which the messages had appeared. As we  conducted a detailed investigation regarding the messages, we came to know that the pages in which the messages appeared belong to Congress workers”, Shailaja said. “Now, Shafi says that these messages are fake. I challenge him to prove his claim”, she said. 

“According to the information received, we believe that these messages were not fake. I had to endure similar experiences before also. Congress workers had even  created fake official pages of Mathrubhumi online. I think this is the continuation of such dirty work. They had some plans, I presume. The spread of messages on the day before the election makes us to think so’, said Shailaja. 

“It is quite unfortunate that such a dirty campaign was conducted by the UDF to win an election. It would be better for the UDF if they could prove the messages were fake. Since it is a cyber case, the investigation and identification of the accused will take time. Shafi had said in his press conference that I had not withdrawn my allegations even after I had come to know that the allegations were false. It was a false statement as I have not become convinced about his claims and still believes it is not fake’, she said. 

Meanwhile, UDF candidate Shafi Parambil has said that, he has no idea about the communal campaign being unleashed against Shailaja. “LDF candidate’s  substandard statements have surprised me. Now, she is deliberately raising allegations against me. The audio messages and social media posts  in which the term ‘kafir’ mentioned was a fake one.   I don’t want a ‘plus’ gained in the name of religion. To be called as a communalist is not a nice experience’, said Shafi Parambil.