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As politics peaks on Hathras, PFI chairman found to be Kerala govt employee

OMA Salama, a Senior Assistant in Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is currently posted at Manjari (Malappuram) SEB Circle Office. His appointment with Kerala govt raises many pertinent questions.

New Delhi: The Popular Front of India (PFI), in the eye of storm for its anti-national activities and recent role in hatching conspiracy against Yogi government has long invited public ire and demands for ban on the radical outfit.

Here comes some more shocking development about the radical Islamist outfit. PFI national chairman Mohammed Abdul Salam Ovungal holds a government office in Kerala. The 47 year old is better known by name of OMA Salam.

OMA Salama, a Senior Assistant in Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is currently posted at Manjari (Malappuram) SEB Circle Office. His appointment with Kerala govt raises many pertinent questions – as to how such a controversial figures gets a govt employment and also the Kerala govt’s promotion of such people with dubious characters.

The revelation has spurred the agencies into action. ED has already taken up the probe into alleged funding for creating Hathras riots and the PFI outfit is under its scanner for alleged fund transfer from abroad. 4 people with PFI links were held yesterday and charged with disrupting peace in Hathras and nearby towns of UP.

Among them was a Kerala based journalist cum PFI activist. UP police is probing the matter and if bigger plot is unraveled, more arrests would follow and it can be ruled out that the probe team will not reach Kerala.

PFI came under the watch of security during anti-CAA riots also as they were understood to be the financial backbone of Shaheen Bagh and many others baghs across the country. During the anti-CAA-NRC violence in Delhi, when the ED had sent summons to Salam for questioning, he had written a letter to the ED saying, “I am a government employee and I have to complete my very important work so I am not involved in the investigation so may.’

Salam joined Kerala SEB in 2000, his records show that he has made some 7 foreign trips in past 6 years as “personal trips”. There are many allegations against the PFI, including one where it is alleged that it used to get regular funding from some West Asian countries.

About PFI

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The PFI was formed in Kerala in 2006 after merging 3 Muslim outfits floated after the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 – the National Development Front of Kerala, Karnataka Forum for Dignity and Manitha Neethi Pasari of Tamil Nadu. PFI claims it has units in 22 states and majority of its members are Kerala based.