Congress spokesperson M.M. Hassan, a Muslim, also took on the nine organisations. He condemned their decision to approach the Supreme Court, asking them to drop the idea because it did not augur well for the community as a whole when it was trying to come into the mainstream.
With every political party flaying the decision, the IUML, the second biggest ally of the Chandy government, directed all its top leaders to exercise the utmost caution because it realised that it would be hard to wriggle out from a tight position. Some IUML leaders washed their hands of the matter, saying theirs was a political outfit.
One reason for the total unity in attacking the decision of the Muslim organisation was the huge media attention last month when a 17-year-old Muslim girl from Kozhikode was married to a UAE national, who divorced her after 17 days.
The police also acted swiftly and arrested the office-bearers of the orphanage who took the lead to solemnise the marriage.
