KOZHIKODE, Sep 11,2005

The National Development Front (NDF) has said that  it doesn't  have any connection with the recent torching of a Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation bus in Ernakulam on Friday night. The bus was set ablaze at time when things appear to have started working in favour of Mr. Maudany's release. Attempts by one of the story writer of " Mathrubhumi, Malayalam Daily"  to relate NDF to this heinous crime is a part of an ongoing media based conspirancy against NDF. Nasarudheen said that NDF was being unnecessarily dragged into the controversy with fabricated sotries.

News reports that the culprits had claimed themselves to be members of the Muslim community by itself was a deliberate act to tarnish the image of the Muslim community. That the culprits had shouted slogans supporting Mr. Maudany and condemning Ms. Jayalalithaa only vindicates the conspiracy angle. He urged the Chief Minister and Director Genereral of  police to conduct a fair investigation into the incident to trace the criminals behind this social crime.

NDF General Secretary, Mr. Nasarudheen Elamaram said that the incident  was part of a conspiracy hatched by vested interests to keep Mr. Maudany indefinitely under incarceration.  NDF is one of the few social organizations in the country, which  uphold the concept of "Rule of Law"  and resist fascism and human rights violation using democratic and legal methods. NDF along with CHRO (Confederation of Human Rights Organizations) and other social orgnanizations have been advocating  his release through legal means for the past seven and half years. 

Mr. Nasarudheen pointed out that even political parties and organisations opposed to the PDP and Mr. Maudany now had started adopting a sympathetic stand towards Mr. Maudany, only for their winning chances during elections. Abdul Nasar Maudany  had been kept in jail without justification for the past seven and a half years. The incident is a part of a plot to tide over the soaring sympathy wave in favour of Mr. Maudany's release.